State Medicaid agencies and their recovery contractors, including Optum and Conduent, often demand the full amount Medicaid paid. That demand ignores a basic limit. Federal law lets the state recover only from the medical portion of a settlement. When an injury victim settles for a fraction of full case value, the lien should fall by that same fraction. The federal anti-lien statute at 42 U.S.C. § 1396p protects the rest of the recovery as the injury victim’s property. Most demands arrive with no pro-rata reduction applied at all.
Synergy is the industry leader in healthcare lien resolution for personal injury firms. The Synergy team includes attorneys and lien specialists who reduce Medicaid liens across all fifty states by applying the Ahlborn pro-rata framework to each state’s third-party liability statute. Synergy resolves Medicaid liens at scale, drawing on deep subrogation experience to protect injury victims’ net recoveries.
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