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Practitioner’s Guide to Settlements, Offsets & Set-Asides
By Angelo Paul Sevarino, Esq.
Author of Connecticut Worker’s Compensation after Reforms (3rd Edition)
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This updated, indispensable and all-inclusive reference guide is essential for workers’ compensation, personal injury, or social security practitioners, as well as, insurance claim professionals and structured settlement specialists in the settlement of claims with concurrent workers’ compensation, social security disability, supplemental security income, Medicare or Medicaid benefits.

Negotiation of and drafting of these complex settlement documents is a minefield filled with potholes. The text provides an authoritative, detailed, in-depth analysis of the interplay amongst these important client benefits. This resource guide will assist you in protecting your clients, as well as, yourself from Social Security overpayment claims, Medicare conditional recoupment actions, resolving Medicaid/State lien issues, Medicare denials of future claims and loss of important client Medicare or Medicaid benefits.

Topics Include;

Client interview techniques and file development	Medicare, “Liens” and rights of recovery-compromising or waiver
Conflicts of Law Issues	Medicare’s conditional payment repayment obligations
Social Security Administration program changes	Medicare Set-aside (MSA) drafting and contract provisions
Social Security Disability/Supplemental Security Income eligibility criteria and evaluation	MSA funding mechanisms
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) program Changes	MSA administration options
Medicare/Medicaid eligibility criteria	MSA payments and termination
Medicare’s various coverage parts including prescription drug coverage	CMS review thresholds for referral of the MSA
Collateral benefits interplay with workers’ compensation/liability settlements	CMS referral processes and required documentation or Special Needs Trust approval
How to use ”excludable expenses” to reduce offset impact	Special Needs Trust – use of in workers’ compensation/liability settlements
Social Security Offset calculations with examples	Amending/Opening a settlement to conform with CMS guidelines
Settlement types subject to Offset	Appeals of adverse CMS decisions
Evidentiary rules	Sample Forms and Guidelines
Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) Rules and Regulations
Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extensions Act of 2007