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Resolving Medical Liens and Reimbursement Claims in Personal Injury Cases: Achieving Predictability and Finality

$197.00

This course is $0 with these passes:

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About the Course

Introduction

This CLE will provide the trial bar with and understanding of the ERISA, Federal Employees Health Benefits Act (FEHBA), and Medicare Advantage lien resolution process, as well as provide practical and litigative tips for how to eliminate or reduce the repayment demands being asserted.

Description

The open discussion for personal injury litigators will discuss the latest developments and relevant ERISA, FEHBA, and MAO case law.

Listen as our renowned panelists offer an overview of the law governing subrogation/reimbursement in the context of personal injury settlements and provide guidance on topics of critical importance for resolving liens:

• How to make proper ERISA document request

• Equitable arguments in ERISA 

• Negotiation tactics

• Litigative tactics

• FEHBA

• Medicare Advantage

• MAO Procurement cost reduction

• Medicare Refunds


Presented By

David L. Place, Esq.
Owner
The Place Firm, PLLC

Mr. Place began his career as a medical malpractice and products liability defense attorney at O'Bryan, Brown & Toner in downtown Louisville. During that time, he traversed Kentucky appearing before courts across the Commonwealth. In 1998, Mr. Place joined the ERISA subrogation firm Sharps & Associates (later to be known as Gibson & Sharps) and began his decades-long career practicing in the subrogation/reimbursement space. For nearly 15 years Mr. Place practiced in this law firm, recognized as a national leader in healthcare subrogation, as a "Litigation Specialist." In that role, he represented large private group health insurance plans, self-funded ERISA groups, Medicare Advantage plans, state Medicaid plans, Stop-Loss plans and disability plans in all fifty states.  

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Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


  • Live Online


    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Tuesday, December 9, 2025

  • schedule

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

I. What is the lien landscape for personal injury litigants in 2025?

A. Medicare Parts A/B (traditional)

B. Medicare Part C (advantage)

C. Medicare Part D (prescription drugs)

D. Medicaid

II. Private/ERISA/FEHBA

A. Affordable Care Act

B. Military

C. Workers' compensation

D. Indian Health

III. Focal point: Medicare advantage plan

A. PAID Act coming, but what about now?

B. How to find that hidden MAP out there?

C. Historical

D. Humana

E. MSP recoveries

IV. Using predictive settlement solutions to resolve liens

V. Judicial allocations via arbitration to minimize lien exposure

A. What does "on the merits" mean?

B. Why settling the case is the wrong path to minimize lien exposure

C. How a well-planned arbitration path makes more sense

VI. Qualified settlement funds (QSFs)

A. Protection for defendants

B. Protection for plaintiffs

VII. Lien resolution compliance programs

A. What is a lien resolution compliance program?

B. Why is now the right time to implement a lien resolution compliance program?

C. What to seek in the right lien resolution compliance program

The panel will review these and other consequential issues:

  • Why current lien resolution techniques fail to achieve the results intended
  • How lienholders are using new tools to increase recovery efforts
  • When utilizing predictive settlement solutions makes the most sense