Synergy’s blog brings you the industry’s foremost thought leadership InSights on matters of healthcare lien resolution and Medicare Secondary Payer Compliance. Visit often to discover helpful InSights on important lien resolution compliance issues.
The Peak Practice Newsletter helps trial lawyers scale, streamline, and accelerate their practices with expert insights on law firm operations, business growth, marketing, and lien resolution strategy.
Ten years after a truck hit him on a group bike ride, Synergy founder Jason Lazarus revisits the personal injury case he negotiated himself, from a six figure medical lien to a settlement plan built while recovering from facial reconstruction. He connects that experience to a bigger issue facing firms today: rising MSP compliance pressure and staff hours lost to administrative lien work. His conclusion: keep case selection, negotiation, and client relationships in house, and hand off lien identification and Medicare compliance to specialists.
Kyle Wright built his trucking practice in Sandusky, Ohio, a market most firms would overlook. In this Trial Lawyer View recap, he explains how he studied federal motor carrier regulations, put six figures a year into trial training, and ran a catastrophic case at litigation speed pre suit to secure a 5.7 million dollar policy limit settlement. The result: a smaller, higher value caseload and a referral pipeline built on reputation, not marketing spend alone.
When a state Medicaid agency demands full reimbursement from a client’s settlement, federal law may not actually allow it. This post breaks down the federal mandate behind Medicaid’s third-party recovery rights, the anti-lien and anti-recovery statutes that limit them, and the two Supreme Court rulings, Ahlborn and Wos, that define how much of an injury victim’s recovery is truly protected.
A longtime Medicare Secondary Payer compliance attorney reflects on becoming a Medicare beneficiary and the lessons this experience offers to personal injury lawyers. Her story provides valuable insight into how MSP obligations impact injured clients.
Every firm tracks what a case costs to try, but lien resolution costs rarely show up on a report. They arrive as absorbed hours, delayed disbursements, and reduction arguments never made. Here’s a breakdown of the three hidden leaks draining profit from personal injury firms, and why the accounting shifts entirely once the work is outsourced.
The Peak Practice Newsletter helps trial lawyers scale, streamline, and accelerate their practices with expert insights on law firm operations, business growth, marketing, and lien resolution strategy.
The Peak Practice Newsletter helps trial lawyers scale, streamline, and accelerate their practices with expert insights on law firm operations, business growth, marketing, and lien resolution strategy.
Resolving liens in-house isn’t free, it just hides the cost in staff hours, weaker reductions, and client dissatisfaction. Here’s what firms are really paying, and where the ethical obligations under ABA Model Rules 1.1 and 1.15 actually leave room to outsource.