{"id":528,"date":"2010-01-14T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/2010\/01\/14\/how-do-health-insurance-medicare-and-medicaid-co\/"},"modified":"2024-05-08T00:04:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T04:04:14","slug":"how-do-health-insurance-medicare-and-medicaid-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/blog\/how-do-health-insurance-medicare-and-medicaid-co\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance, Medicare &amp; Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p> The short answer is &#8220;very carefully.&#8221; When you get into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/car-accident\/\n\">traffic accident in South Carolina<\/a> that is somebody else&#8217;s fault, that person may be responsible for  compensating you for your medical treatment, among other things. Many  times it is beneficial to you or your doctor for the doctor to get paid  immediately by your health insurance (or Medicare, Medicaid, or Workers&#8217;  Compensation insurance), rather than waiting until after you have resolved your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/personal-injury\/\n\">SC personal injury claim<\/a>. But if you used your health insurance, Medicare and\/or Medicaid to pay  for your treatment AND you received monetary compensation from the at-fault  driver, the law may say that you received double benefits. However, in  most cases, the health insurance Medicare and\/or Medicaid has a &#8220;lien&#8221;  on the proceeds of your personal injury case &#8211; they have the right to  get reimbursed for anything that they paid that really should have been  paid by the at-fault driver. <\/p>\n<p> What is a lien? A lien is a legitimate legal claim that someone else has  to something that you think of as &#8220;yours&#8221;. If you have a mortgage  on your house, the bank has a lien on your house. If you are still making  payments on your car, the dealership has a lien on your car. Liens ensure  that someone who lends money to you has some way to get their money back  if you cannot make the payments. In this case, the lien is good thing  &#8211; it allows you to get medical treatment even if there is ultimately some  problem with your personal injury case. <\/p>\n<p> While the concept is simple, getting it done is far from simple. You can  bet that when they are entitled to do so, that health insurance, Medicare,  and Medicaid will make sure they get reimbursed. But the process can be  an administrative nightmare, with forms going back and forth, months of  delay, and endless debate over which medical bills were related to the  accident and which ones weren&#8217;t. Don&#8217;t settle your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/\">South Carolina personal injury<\/a> case on your own just to have the health insurance carrier, Medicare and\/or  Medicaid come back months or years later with a big bill asking for what&#8217;s  theirs. Get someone who knows the system to take care of it right the  first time. <\/p>\n<p><em>The information relayed in this blog is for educational purposes only and  is not legal advice. The cases referenced and explained by the blog&#8217;s  author(s) are for informational purposes only and are not intended to  imply that certain, or similar, results may be achieved in each client&#8217;s case.<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Do Health Insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid Come Into Play in a SC Personal Injury Case?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-personal-injury","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Health Insurance, Medicare &amp; Medicaid | George Sink<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How Do Health Insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid Come Into Play in a SC Personal Injury Case?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/blog\/how-do-health-insurance-medicare-and-medicaid-co\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Health Insurance, Medicare &amp; Medicaid | George Sink\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How Do Health Insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid Come Into Play in a SC Personal Injury Case?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/blog\/how-do-health-insurance-medicare-and-medicaid-co\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"George Sink Injury Lawyers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sinklawfirm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-01-14T15:05:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-08T04:04:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Trudy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SinkLawFirm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@SinkLawFirm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Trudy\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Health Insurance, Medicare &amp; Medicaid | George Sink","description":"How Do Health Insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid Come Into Play in a SC Personal Injury Case?","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/blog\/how-do-health-insurance-medicare-and-medicaid-co\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Health Insurance, Medicare &amp; Medicaid | George Sink","og_description":"How Do Health Insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid Come Into Play in a SC Personal Injury Case?","og_url":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/blog\/how-do-health-insurance-medicare-and-medicaid-co\/","og_site_name":"George Sink Injury Lawyers","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sinklawfirm","article_published_time":"2010-01-14T15:05:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-05-08T04:04:14+00:00","author":"Trudy","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SinkLawFirm","twitter_site":"@SinkLawFirm","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Trudy","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/blog\/how-do-health-insurance-medicare-and-medicaid-co\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/blog\/how-do-health-insurance-medicare-and-medicaid-co\/"},"author":{"name":"Trudy","@id":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2cf527896826feb585f13cea3f7750a0"},"headline":"Health Insurance, Medicare &amp; Medicaid","datePublished":"2010-01-14T15:05:00+00:00","dateModified":"2024-05-08T04:04:14+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/blog\/how-do-health-insurance-medicare-and-medicaid-co\/"},"wordCount":442,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Personal Injury"],"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/blog\/how-do-health-insurance-medicare-and-medicaid-co\/","url":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/blog\/how-do-health-insurance-medicare-and-medicaid-co\/","name":"Health Insurance, Medicare &amp; Medicaid | George Sink","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2010-01-14T15:05:00+00:00","dateModified":"2024-05-08T04:04:14+00:00","description":"How Do Health Insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid Come Into Play in a SC Personal Injury Case?","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/blog\/how-do-health-insurance-medicare-and-medicaid-co\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/blog\/how-do-health-insurance-medicare-and-medicaid-co\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/blog\/how-do-health-insurance-medicare-and-medicaid-co\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Personal Injury","item":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/blog\/category\/personal-injury\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Health Insurance, Medicare &amp; Medicaid","item":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/blog\/how-do-health-insurance-medicare-and-medicaid-co\/"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/","name":"George Sink","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/#organization","name":"George Sink Injury Lawyers","url":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/profile-picture.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/profile-picture.jpg","width":250,"height":250,"caption":"George Sink Injury Lawyers"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sinklawfirm","https:\/\/x.com\/SinkLawFirm","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sinklaw\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/george-sink-p-a-injury-lawyers\/","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/sinklaw\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/Sinklaw\/about"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2cf527896826feb585f13cea3f7750a0","name":"Trudy"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinklaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}