Boy Scouts Lien Resolution Update Feb ‘26

Описание: Last week, the United States Supreme Court denied the final appeal pending in the Boy Scouts of America Bankruptcy action. This means that the Trust will now receive approximately $1.65 billion from insurance companies and can begin planning to pay claimants and survivors. However, before a claimant or survivor can be paid, healthcare liens need to be addressed.

The Trust is charged with 2 obligations with respect to healthcare liens: 1) handle certain reporting obligations to the federal government; and 2) verify and resolve governmental liens (such as Medicare, Medicaid, VA, and Tricare). The Trust is working with a lien resolution administrator (Epiq Global f/k/a Garretson Resolution Group) to address governmental lien obligations. At the same time, there is an option for claimants who do not want the lien resolution administrator (LRA) to handle governmental liens on their behalf to handle those liens on their own.

NOTE: Neither the Trust nor the lien resolution administrator has any responsibility to address non-governmental liens such as those which may be asserted by private health insurance plans or employer based health insurance plans. The claimant is responsible for those liens no matter what option they choose.

This video explains in detail the 3 options available for a claimant to choose to handle governmental liens. Those are:

Option A: Lien Resolution Administrator (LRA) Global Pathway
In Option A, the Trust seeks to have you pay a fixed amount to resolve any and all liens of
Governmental Payors arising from your Scouting sexual abuse claim. These liens relate to
medical expenses that a Governmental Payor paid, pays, or may still pay for care you received or
will receive in the future relating to your Scouting sexual abuse claim.

Option B: Lien Resolution Administrator (LRA) Traditional Pathway
Option B is exactly like Option A with one big exception - resolving your Medicare liens is not handled through the global resolution process. Instead, resolving your Medicare liens is handled in a "traditional" process, which involves the LRA seeking data about the treatments you received and negotiating with Medicare (through its recovery agent) to arrive at a fair Medicare lien amount based on the case you received that was paid for by Medicare. Governmental Payors other than Medicare are handled the same in Option B as in Option A.

Option C: Certification Pathway
Under this option, the Claimant elects to resolve all Governmental Healthcare Liens
independently and the Claimant and Claimant’s counsel (if applicable) agree to reimburse the
Trust if the Trust incurs any liability from a lienholder with a federal recovery right related to a
Claimant’s failure to resolve any Governmental Healthcare Lien obligations.

The Claimant and the Claimant’s counsel (if applicable) are responsible for identifying, resolving,
and paying all applicable Governmental Healthcare Liens consistent with the terms of the
federal court order that authorized the LRA to enter into data exchanges with Governmental
Payors.

Important Considerations - Failure to properly resolve liens—including Medicare-related liens—
may result in enforcement actions by government agencies, including collection efforts and
denial of future benefits.

In this video, Cattie provides additional details about these 3 options, as well as the pros and cons of each options. Viewers who watch this will know more about the lien resolution process for the Boy Scouts of America Bankruptcy action and better understand which lien resolution option best fits their goals in terms of speed of payment, ability to maximize liens, and legal counsel claimants can rely on in Cattie & Gonzalez, PLLC.