Lien resolution
Lien resolution is the process of identifying, verifying and negotiating down every claim against a plaintiff's settlement — from health insurers, Medicare, Medicaid, hospitals and providers — before the client is paid.
It is the last thing between a settlement and a disbursement, and it is routinely what makes the client wait.
What has to be found
- Health insurance subrogation claims
- Medicare and Medicaid conditional payments
- Hospital liens, which in many states attach automatically
- Provider balances under letters of protection
- Workers compensation liens where the injury crossed over
Missing one is not a clerical error. Some of these survive the settlement and follow the client, and a firm that disbursed without resolving them has a problem of its own.
Why it takes so long
Every one is a separate correspondence with a separate organization on its own timetable, and Medicare’s is not fast. The tracking is manual at most firms, which is why a case that settled in March gets disbursed in July.
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Send us five pages of a record set. We will send back what we found in it.
Five pages is enough, redacted however you like. You get a short video back within two business days showing what a chronology would surface from it: the dates, the gaps, the things worth knowing before the other side finds them.
- Send five pages of a real file. Redact whatever you like first.
- We run them and record what comes out, including what it misses.
- You get the video within two business days. If there is nothing worth showing, we say so.