Legal Question in Personal Injury in Alabama

Medicare can take many weeks and even months to provide a finalized subrogation lien amount. Generally, your attorney should be able to estimate the lien amount from the medical billing records which should show payments from Medicare. At our firm, we generally hold the projected or anticipated lien amount in the Trust account while we wait on final documents and reductions; however, if the attorney is uncertain of the projected lien amount then he or she may want to hold entire funds in Trust until the proper documentation is received. This is because the attorney can be held liable to Medicare for a non-payment.