Medicare Compliance: Failing to address Medicare issues at settlement exposes personal injury law firms to DOJ actions
February 25, 2020
By Jason D. Lazarus, J.D., LL.M., MSCC, CSSC
If you do not resolve Conditional Payments, DOJ might come knock on your firm’s door. When you do not take Medicare compliance very seriously at your firm, you might …
DOJ Pursues Philadelphia Law Firm Over Six Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Conditional Payments, Firm Settles with DOJ
January 8, 2020
By: Jason D. Lazarus, J.D., LL.M., MSCC
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is serious about and intent on enforcement of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act when it comes to conditional payments. There are now numerous examples of …
Medicare Compliance, or Else Redux: A Third Law Firm Settles with the DOJ for Failing to be MSP Compliant
By Jason D. Lazarus, J.D., LL.M., MSCC
The government takes its reimbursement rights seriously and is willing to pursue trial lawyers who ignore Medicare’s interest. On November 4th, 2019, The United States Attorney for the District of Maryland …
