Medicare Secondary Payer Manual (Pub. 100-05), Ch. 5 § 10.4
Contractor Record Retention
10.4 - Contractor Record Retention
(Rev. 11550; Issued: 08-12-22; Effective: 10-13-22; Implementation:10-13-22)
A/B MACs and DME MACs are responsible for retaining documentation that they do not forward to
the MSP Contractor following current CMS document retention guidelines, including the assignment
of a document control number for their use in subsequent retrieval. However, also see §10.7, which
requires the A/B MACs and DME MACs receiving a liability, no-fault or workers' compensation
inquiry to forward all associated documentation to the MSP Contractor