Medicaid Lien Resolution Fundamentals: What Every Trial Lawyer Needs to Know
If your client is on Medicaid and settles a personal injury case, you will almost always face a Medicaid lien. How you handle that lien directly affects your client’s net recovery, your professional liability, and your firm’s reputation. Yet many
Medicaid Lien Resolution Fundamentals
Medicaid liens often arise in personal injury cases where the injured party is indigent, and the program has covered the client’s medical expenses. Under federal law, Medicaid programs must recover these expenses from third-party settlements. However, the process is governed
The Hidden Cost of Post-Resolution Lien Chaos—and Why Trial Lawyers Can’t Afford to Ignore It
When a hard-fought personal injury case is resolved, trial lawyers and their clients often breathe a sigh of relief. The hard work is over or so it seems. But lurking beneath the surface of every settlement is a potential minefield:
