Mallinckrodt Opioid Personal Injury Trust

MASSIVE has been named as the Lien Resolution Administrator for the Mallinckrodt Opioid Personal Injury Trust (the “Trust”) and each claimant’s award. MASSIVE has been hired to obtain any lien or reimbursement claims from each claimant’s health insurer (including Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance companies such as United Healthcare, Blue Cross, and many more).  We will evaluate those claims to ensure they are accurate and then work to reduce them as much as possible to allow each claimant to receive as much of their award allocation as possible.

Health insurers (including Medicare, Medicaid, United Healthcare, Blue Cross, and many more) have a right to be reimbursed from each claimant’s award.  The claimant’s health insurer can make a claim for reimbursement for treatment it covered that is related to a claimant’s opioid claim.

This right is often known as a “lien,” and can exist under either state or federal law, an insurance contract, or both.

Yes. The Court, the Plan and the Trustee are requiring the review and resolution of each claimant’s liens in order for them to receive their allocation.

No.  We do not require anything from a claimant to resolve their liens other than providing the health insurance information required on the claim form.

The Court and Trustee require that we check with various organizations even if a claimant tells us they had no health insurance.  We will do so as quickly as possible.

The majority of claimants should be through the lien resolution process within 12 months of the claimant or the claimant’s law firm providing information to MASSIVE and the Trust. Some will be faster.  Others will be slower. Regardless, we will work as fast as possible to clear all liens.

No. The Court and Trustee require MASSIVE to check with multiple health insurance organizations and Medicaid before the Claims Administrator can release a claimant’s award or allocation to them.

We don’t know how much a claimant’s lien or liens will be.  The lien resolution program that the claimants’ attorneys and MASSIVE have negotiated include automatic reductions and maximum amounts for many programs; however, we won’t know the exact amounts each health insurer is requesting until we receive information from them.

Liens impact a claimant’s award by partially reducing the amount the claimant will take home.  Our goal is to minimize the lien amounts, so the claimant walks away with as much as possible.

To facilitate the transmittal of your health information, you are required to sigh a HIPAA form as part of the claim submission process.  Additionally, the Court has issued a Qualified Protective Order to facilitate the receipt and transmittal of claimant personal information and health related information to the Trust and MASSIVE to score and pay claims and resolve liens, by authorizing the exchange of such information that is protected by HIPAA and its amendments.

Contact the claimant’s attorney.  MASSIVE cannot communicate with the claimant because the claimant is represented by an attorney.  If the claimant does not have an attorney, please utilize this form to contact us.