Medicare Compliance
The professionals within our Medicare Compliance practice group understand and can assist you in navigating Medicare issues when settling workers' compensation and liability claims. We are certified Medicare Set-Aside Consultants by the International Commission on Healthcare. Our role as counsel is to help you to comply with CMS by providing the following:
- Medical cost projections
- Medicare set-aside trusts
- Obtaining rated ages
- Verification of a claimant's entitlement to Social Security
- Extensive litigation history in the areas of Social Security disability
- Verification of Medicare liens
- Preparation of releases with the necessary settlement language
- Workers' compensation services
- Social Security services
- Serving as agents for responsible reporting entities
- Knowledge of the query process with CMS
- Negotiating with CMS in the approval process
- Assisting in the funding and administration of the set-aside trust
- Coordinating the purchase of structured settlement annuities for funding of the trusts.