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November 12, 2020 By: Rasa Fumagalli, JD, MSCC, CMSP-F The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has been slow in providing detailed guidance in the area of liability settlements that include compensation for future medicals. To date, the guidance consists of the May 2011 CMS Stalcup memo and the September 2011 CMS memo regarding […]
October 20, 2020 Heidi Ahlborn was injured in a very serious car accident in January of 1996. At the time, she was a nineteen-year-old college student pursuing a degree in teaching. She suffered a catastrophic brain injury that left her incapable of finishing college and unable to care for or support herself in the future. […]
October 8, 2020 ABLE accounts, named for the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act, have been around since 2014 but remain underutilized across the country despite offering a way for people with disabilities and public benefits to save money without jeopardizing their public benefits eligibility. [1] The reasons why are likely a combination of the […]
Attorney Jason Lazarus, author and CEO of Synergy Settlements, joins CEO and Chairman, Michael J. Swanson, to discuss Mr. Lazarus’s new book “The Art of Settlement: A Lawyer’s Guide to regulatory compliance when resolving catastrophic claims.”
August 13, 2020 By: Teresa Kenyon Medical liens or reimbursement demands are generally an unwelcomed part of the whole recovery process for personal injury attorneys. It’s the case after the case. The target is always moving and there is a lot of information to process and laws to apply. This is generally not the chore […]
July 9, 2020 By Jason D. Lazarus Medicare Secondary Payer Compliance for law firms when it comes to “futures” is all about risk mitigation. How do you properly and compliantly close a file when you represent a Medicare beneficiary? The biggest risk a trial lawyer faces when dealing with settlements for a Medicare beneficiary is […]
May 13, 2020 An often-overlooked issue for plaintiff attorneys is the management of taxation of their own contingent legal fees. As part of the normal rhythm of their practices, many attorneys experience peaks and valleys with their own personal income. This leads to concerns for trial attorneys about the unpredictability of their own income. However, […]
April 29, 2020 United States of America vs. Carrigan & Anderson, PLLC, Stephen P. Carrigan: U.S. Attorney brings suit against personal injury lawyer and his firm over failing to pay back Medicare for conditional payments By Jason D. Lazarus, J.D., LL.M., MSCC, CSSC In yet another example of Medicare compliance-related issues, a Houston law firm […]
April 9, 2020 By: Evelynn Passino One of the many practice points rarely taught in law school: your client may lose public benefits as a result of a recovery, and you have a duty, as their attorney, to discuss benefit preservation with them. That does not mean you have a duty to actually preserve their […]