Maximizing Efficiency and Profitability, in Personal Injury Law Firms Through the Use of the EOS Traction Model and Strategic Outsourcing
Introduction
In the world of personal injury law practice, balancing profitability with exceptional operational efficiency poses a significant challenge. You want to deliver world-class customer experience while getting the balance right with running your firm efficiently as well as profitably. …
Calculating Future Medical Damages
Personal injury attorneys will often rely on Medical Cost Projections (MCP) when seeking to establish future medical damages in their cases. The MCP provides a roadmap of the future injury-related care and an estimate of the cost of such services. …
Why Aren’t More Attorneys Utilizing the Fee Deferral Programs?
April 11, 2024
Childs v. Commissioner, 103 T.C. 634 (1994), forms the legal basis for attorney fee deferral and outlined several benefits for attorneys who defer legal fees. The case involved an attorney who had deferred a portion of …
Medical Cost Projections and Medicare Set-Asides (MSAs)
October 12, 2023
Rasa Fumagalli, JD, MSCC, CMSP-F
The Differences Between an MCP & LMSA
A Medical Cost Projection (“MCP”) report helps a personal injury attorney quantify an injury victim’s future medical expenses. The report is generally prepared by a …
CMS “Clarifies” Recent Revision to January 10, 2022 WCMSA Reference Guide
February 28, 2022
Rasa Fumagalli JD, MSCC, CMSP-F
There has been much discussion in the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) compliance industry over the addition of Section 4.3 to the revised Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-Aside Arrangement (WCMSA) Reference Guide Version 3.5…
Liability Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) Case Studies: Eliminate, Reduce & Comply
B. Josh Pettingill
There is mounting evidence that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will establish formal guidelines for liability MSAs in the imminent future. Medicare Secondary Payor compliance related to future medical care is an issue that …
Negotiating Catastrophic Workers’ Comp Claims
It is a very common practice for insurance carriers to negotiate catastrophic workers’ compensation claims using offers in the form of both upfront cash to the claimant and a structured settlement. At a minimum, any case involving a Medicare set …