Real talk on what triggers a medicare set-aside today
If you're currently working through a legal settlement, you're probably trying to figure out exactly what triggers a medicare set-aside and how it's going to affect the money you actually take home. It's one of those topics that sounds incredibly boring until it suddenly becomes the only thing standing between you and your settlement check. Essentially, a Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) is a chunk of money from your settlement that's "set aside" specifically to pay for future medical care related to your injury, so Medicare doesn't end up footing the bill for things the insurance company should have covered. ...