$200,000 Double Damages Exposure Successfully Reduced to $25,000

Recently, a client requested Sanderson Firm assist with conditional payment research prior to settlement. At settlement, and against our best practice recommendations for further handling, the parties agreed to leave the Medicare Advantage Plan (MAP) lien resolution to the plaintiff’s attorney. Six months after settlement, our client received notice the plaintiff’s attorney had not, in fact, resolved the MAP lien and that the MAP was threatening double damages litigation resulting in approximately $200,000 in exposure.

Sanderson Firm’s attorneys leveraged appropriate Medicare Secondary Payer statutory and case law authority to successfully negotiate resolution of the lien for $25,000, mitigating $175,000 in exposure.