Medicare in Personal Injury Claim Settlements: Complying With Reporting Requirements and Satisfying Liens

Mr. Cattie focuses his law practice exclusively on MSP and MSA issues, providing legal opinions regarding reporting and repayment obligations as well as assessing a client’s future medical exposure under the MSP Act. In the MSA area, he has personally reviewed or overseen the review of over 10,000 distinct fact patterns. Federal and state court opinions such as Smith v. Marine Terminals of Arkansas, Tye v. Upper Valley Medical Center, and Doe v. Company X cite his analysis favorably.

Mr. De Leon is the owner and principal attorney of De Leon Law, P.L.L.C., a boutique practice concentrated on complex subrogation and reimbursement claims being asserted against injury-victims and their tort and/or workers' compensation actions. He has handled and resolved various sophisticated and high-stake subrogation claims being asserted by insurance entities, disability plans, and self-funded health plans against their insured participants and/or beneficiaries. Mr. De Leon has had the opportunity to author various written pieces, as well as conduct speaking engagements for civil litigation counsel around the nation regarding the sophisticated nuances involved in properly analyzing, attacking, and ultimately resolving reimbursement claims being asserted under federal schemes such as the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act of 1959 (FEHBA), and other pertinent state and local laws which may affect an injury-victim's net settlement. He has reviewed thousands of case files with varying and distinct fact patterns, providing counsel and insight to his attorney-clients on how to best handle the above obligations, while zealously advocating for such clients when he finds himself in an adversarial matter.