Medicare liens for dummies

Okay, not dummies. Rookies. If any of your p.i. clients' medical bills have been paid by Medicare (highly likely), you should get an early start on the laborious and complicated process of making sure Medicare gets its due. Otherwise, the feds can hold up your case and your client's payday. So writes Angelica Wawrzynek in the latest issue of the ISBA YLDNews. And, she wryly observes, "Medicare started having liens on cases after many of your senior partners started practicing, and the procedures for getting these liens resolved have become more and more particular over the years. Make yourself a valuable part of the team by mastering the process." How? Here's how.