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You are the trustee of a special needs trust. Your beneficiary (Beth) lives in public housing, receives SSI (Supplemental Security Income) and MA (Medical Assistance), and has just asked you for a $200 gift card to Target so that she can buy headphones, clothes, toiletries, and some food.
By B. Josh Pettingill, MBA, MS, MSCC Traditional Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage Plans There is often confusion between “Traditional Medicare”, Part A and Part B coverage and Medicare Advantage Plans. It is critical to identify exactly what benefits your client is actually receiving before the resolution of their case. The best time to confirm public […]
Synergy Settlement Services’ experts will resolve the most difficult and complex Medicare Secondary Payer compliance challenges facing your firm. Medicare 360° is the complete solution for Medicare conditional payment resolution and Medicare Set Aside (MSA) allocations. Medicare 360° combines the most powerful services from our lien resolution group and our MSP compliance group into one […]
In Humana Medical Plan, Inc. v. Western Heritage Insurance Co., No. 12-20123, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31875, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida granted Humana’s Motion for Summary Judgment and held that Humana’s right to reimbursement for the conditional payments it made on behalf of plan beneficiary under a Medicare Advantage […]
In Humana Medical Plan, Inc. v. Western Heritage Insurance Co., No. 12-20123, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31875, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida granted Humana’s Motion for Summary Judgment and held that Humana’s right to reimbursement for the conditional payments it made on behalf of plan beneficiary under a Medicare Advantage […]
Repaying Medicare for conditional payments is a necessary but unpleasant process which can result in a greatly reduced net recovery or no recovery at all for an injured Medicare beneficiary. The Medicare Secondary Payer Statute has a repayment formula that is designed to maximize the return of funds to Medicare and provides no consideration for […]
Special Needs Trusts – The Differences By: Jason D. Lazarus, J.D., LL.M., MSCC, CSSC A special needs trust is a trust that can be created pursuant to Federal law whose corpus or any assets held in the trust do not count as resources for purposes of qualifying for Medicaid or SSI. Thus a personal injury […]
Are you Cutting A Check to the IRS this Year? By Daniel J. Alvarez, J.D. and Anthony F. Prieto, Jr., CFP® As the tax season draws to a close, you may be reviewing your tax return with some displeasure. Did you cut too large of a check to the Department of Treasury for your 2014 […]
By: Jason D. Lazarus, J.D., LL.M., MSCC, CSSC In a February 11, 2015 article from the Business Insider, Michael Kelly and Pamela Engel detail twenty one lottery winners who blew it all (see http://www.businessinsider.com/lottery-winners-who-lost-everything-2015-2?op=1). In the article, there are details regarding the myriad of ways fortunes were lost. For example, “Lara and Roger Griffiths bought […]