The United States Supreme Court recently answered an important question in Medicaid law: can a state Medicaid plan recover funds from a legal settlement involving a Medicaid beneficiary to pay for that beneficiary’s future medical expenses? This question required the Court to first unlock several interlocking provisions of federal Medicaid law. And, in answering this question in the affirmative, the Supreme Court also likely affected the future structure of settlement arrangements negotiated by personal injury lawyers on behalf of Medicaid beneficiaries.… More