John Cattie

John V. Cattie, Jr. is one of the nation’s most well-respected Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) legal scholars. Cattie received his BA from the University of North Carolina and his JD/MBA from Villanova University. Cattie has personally reviewed or overseen the review of over 12,000 distinct fact patterns for Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) purposes. Federal and state court opinions such as Smith v. Marine Terminals of Arkansas, Tye v. Upper Valley Medical Center, and Doe v. Company X cite his analysis favorably. In each case, his client’s future medical exposure was minimized or extinguished based on how Cattie analyzed the MSA issue. In the Doe case, that difference amounted to a 90% or almost $900,000 reduction in future medical exposure for his client, the injury victim. The Doe Court stated the following in its opinion: “The Court finds that Mr. Cattie’s analysis is more credible [than his opponent’s] in the liability context.” To date, Cattie has been able to save his clients over $30 million in MSA exposure. Cattie actively participates in many organizations nationwide, including NAMSAP, RIMS, CLM and DRI. For DRI, Cattie recently concluded a four (4) year term as the Chair of DRI’s Medicare Secondary Payer Task Force. During that time, he served as Executive Editor for DRI’s Defense Practitioner’s Guide to Medicare Secondary Payer Issues. He also served as a co-author for the American Bar Association (ABA) treatise “What Are … Medicare and Medicaid Secondary Payer Laws?” Cattie is the Managing Member of Cattie, P.L.L.C. His law firm is dedicated to minimizing/extinguishing a client’s future medical exposure under the MSP Act. He focuses his law practice on MSA issues, providing legal opinions regarding MSA requirements, a client’s future medical exposure under the MSP Act and proper MSA funding. His firm also handles Medicare conditional payments, writes traditional medically based MSAs, and medical cost projections among other services. For more information, please see www.cattielaw.com.