Congress Reverses Ahlborn & Wos - Medicaid Liens Now Superliens
Posted January 3, 2014 in LiensUnfortunately, as part of the budget signed by President Obama on the 26th of December (Merry Xmas), a legislative fix for Ahlborn & Wos was made law.
Unfortunately, as part of the budget signed by President Obama on the 26th of December (Merry Xmas), a legislative fix for Ahlborn & Wos was made law.
In WOS v. EMA, the first case to reach the US Supreme Court after Ahlborn, the highest Court in the land again examined a state statute requiring up to one-third of any damages recovered by an injury...
With case law piling up all over the country with differing results post Ahlborn, the US Supreme Court granted the North Carolina Attorney General’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari from a 4th...
In Southwest Fiduciary v. Willingham, an Indiana court of appeals ruled that the state’s Medicaid lien on the settlement proceeds must be based upon the actual payments made by Medicaid and not the...
An Arizona Court of Appeals held that Ahlborn is applicable to reduce Arizona Medicaid’s recovery of a lien against a 3rd party tort recovery.