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Hey wait, when did there get to be multiple insurers providing Medicaid benefits!? And who do I contact to get a Medicaid lien? Great questions! Some answers: Back on Feb. 4, 2019, the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced the selection of Prepaid Health Plans that will participate in Medicaid managed care…

If you find yourself in a situation with a personal injury case in North Carolina where Medicaid is claiming a substantial portion of an already limited insurance settlement, and you need to reduce the Medicaid lien, there is a statutory process to request a reduction hearing. The problem is that it is hard to find…

Friends: This post is an update on an earlier post concerning changes to the law of Medicaid subrogation in North Carolina. The earlier post can be seen here: Medicaid: “Ahlborn hearings” are back thanks to the 2018 federal budget which makes Medicaid provide lien reduction hearings again. But watch the deadlines! Here is the short…

People! Do not let the statute of limitations slip past on your personal injury cases in North Carolina.  I’ve had three calls this week from people who did not have lawyers and who waited until the last second, or past the last second, to call for advice. None of these calls ended on a happy…

I’ll put the most important thing first, then explain it. This is just my opinion, and applies only to North Carolina law, but since deadlines may be running, I wanted to get it out there. If you settled a case (by minor settlement, signed release, or Industrial Commission approval) in which Medicaid claimed a lien,…

The NC AOC (Administrative Office of the Courts) website is often hard to navigate and because it is open to the general public, can be sparse on the email links. This can make scheduling trials and motions difficult. Here is a link to the names, adresses and emails of the TCAs and TCCs in North…

I’m a little late posting this new statute on my blog because I was so involved in getting the new Medicaid subrogation statute trimmed down and written in a way that it would be workable for trial lawyers. These changes were the result of the US Supreme Court Ruling in Wos v EMA issued March 20,…

I found this link with MSPRC’s website and thought it might be helpful to some of you. This link takes you to the PDF lists of all the Medicare diagnosis codes dating back to 2002. http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD9ProviderDiagnosticCodes/codes.html You can download the pdf files and open them in Acrobat and then CTRL F search for the codes…

http://news.yahoo.com/trial-priest-joked-abusing-3-boys-week-205857367.html# Trial: Priest joked about abusing 3 boys in week By MARYCLAIRE DALE | Associated Press – 17 hrs ago PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jurors in a landmark priest-abuse trial heard Monday about a priest-turned-camp prowler and another who allegedly bragged about having sex with three boys in one week. Also Monday, two jurors were replaced by alternates, but a gag…

If you are interested in hearing how the 4th Circuit came to the decision in E.M.A. v Cansler, wherein the Court held that NC’s Medicaid lien statute was not in compliance with the requirements for subrogation as set out in Ark. Dep’t of Human Servs. v. Ahlborn, 547 U.S. 268 (2006) the audio link is posted below.…