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Michelle A. Allan

Michelle A. Allan is a member in the Medicare Compliance group who joined Burns White in 2003.

She focuses on Medicare issues that arise in the resolution of workers’ compensation, longshore, Jones Act and general liability claims.

Michelle has been instrumental in successfully settling hundreds of cases nationwide involving Medicare Secondary Payer issues.

Her work includes preparing Medicare Set-Aside Arrangements and having the same approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Michelle also makes recommendations on how best to consider and protect Medicare's interests while also balancing her clients' interests in claims not requiring Medicare approval.

In addition, Michelle negotiates Medicare conditional payments and has saved her clients hundreds of thousands of dollars in lien reimbursements.

Michelle frequently lectures on the topic of Medicare compliance to insurance carriers, self-insured businesses, third-party administrators, law firms and other professional organizations.

While attending law school, Michelle served as an extern for the United States Magistrate Judge Ila Jeanne Sensenich in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Prior to attending law school, Michelle worked as a journalist, reporting daily news for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Areas of Law

• Medicare Set-Asides
• Workers' Compensation
• General Liability Litigation 

Education

• University of Pittsburgh School of Law (J.D., 2002)
  • Recipient of the Judge David Shahl Memorial Scholarship
• Indiana University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1996)

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania

Memberships

• American Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Allegheny County Bar Association

Seminars

• "Settlements: Get it Right," West Virginia Workers' Compensation Educational Conference, May 2011
• North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys Fall Program, Greensboro, NC, September 2009
• South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association, Asheville, NC, July 2009
• "Medicare's New Prescription Drug Allocation Guidelines and The Anticipated Impact," Wickstrom Live Webinar, May 2009
• "Updates in Medicare Compliance," WorkCompCentral Live Seminar, Los Angeles, March 2009
• “Medicare Set-Aside Update,” Burns White St. Patrick’s Day Seminar, Pittsburgh, March 2009
• North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys Spring Program, Greensboro, NC, February 2009
• "Navigating Between Managing Workers' Compensation Claims and Medicare's Interest," Northern California Workers' Compensation Forum, Monterey, CA, May 2008
• “Medicare Set-Aside Update,” Burns White , St. Patrick’s Day Seminar, Pittsburgh, March 2008
• "Medicare Compliance," Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana, Indianapolis, June 2007
• “Medicare Set-Aside Update,” Burns White St. Patrick’s Day Seminar, Pittsburgh, March 2007
• “Medicare in Workers’ Comp Settlements: Critical Insights and Guidelines Regarding Medicare Set-Aside Allocations,” Florida
• Workers’ Compensation Forum, Orlando, FL, June 2006
• “Practical Aspects and Applications of Medicare Set-Asides,” Burns White St. Patrick’s Day Seminar, Pittsburgh, March 2006
• “Medicare Set-Asides,” RIMS/PRIMA annual chapter meeting, Williamsburg, VA, October 2005
• “Third-Party Settlements,” Advanced Issues in Medicare, Medipro Seminars, Orlando, FL, October 2005
• "Medicare Set-Asides: What You Don't Know May Hurt You," California Workers' Compensation Forum, Huntington Beach, CA, October 2005
• "Medicare Compliance," Montgomery County Bar Association, Montgomery County, PA, April 2005
• “The Basics of Medicare Set-Asides,” Burns White St. Patrick’s Day Seminar, Pittsburgh, March 2005
• “Medicare Set-Asides,” Arkansas Self-Insured Association Conference, Hot Springs, AR, March 2005

Honors/Awards

• 2011 Legal Intelligencer "Lawyers on the Fast Track"

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