# Medicare Program; Medicare Secondary Payer Amendments
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Interim final rule with comment period. · Published 2006-02-24 · Effective 2006-04-25 · 71 FR 9466
## Document
- **Document number:** 06-1712
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 71 FR 9466
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 411
- **Publication date:** 2006-02-24
- **Effective date:** 2006-04-25
- **HHS docket:** CMS-6272-IFC
## Abstract

This interim final rule with comment period implements amendments to the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) provisions under Title III of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA). The MMA amendments clarify the MSP provisions regarding the obligations of primary plans and primary payers, the nature of the insurance arrangements subject to the MSP rules, the circumstances under which Medicare may make conditional payments, and the obligations of primary payers to reimburse Medicare.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/02/24/06-1712/medicare-program-medicare-secondary-payer-amendments)
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