# Medicare Program; Third Party Liability Insurance Regulations
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule with comment period. · Published 2003-07-25 · 68 FR 43940
## Document
- **Document number:** 03-18509
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 68 FR 43940
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 411
- **Publication date:** 2003-07-25
- **HHS docket:** CMS-1475-FC
## Abstract

This final rule with comment period removes Sec. 411.54(c)(2) and a portion of Sec. 489.20(g) from our regulations. These regulations were held by a court to be inconsistent with the Medicare Secondary Payer provisions that are found in section 1862(b)(2)(a) of the Social Security Act. Specifically, the court held that Sec. 411.54(c)(2) and a portion of Sec. 489.20(g) are unenforceable to the extent that these regulations require providers and suppliers to only bill Medicare and prohibits them from billing a liability insurer or asserting or maintaining a lien against a beneficiary's liability insurance settlement during the "promptly" period.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/07/25/03-18509/medicare-program-third-party-liability-insurance-regulations)
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