John V. Cattie, Jr. was born in Philadelphia, PA, and grew up outside Charlotte, NC. John graduated from Charlotte Latin School and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies with a focus on Political Science as well as a minor in History. After graduation, he attended Villanova University and received his JD/MBA. John joined Garretson Resolution Group (GRG) in 2008 to launch its MSA group. It was while working at GRG that John recognized a simple but important fact: while there were a lot of folks around the country that “did MSAs” and a lot of them had lawyers working for them, no one was providing clients with the legal advice they needed most, no one was providing clients with legal advice about their MSA exposure. John set out to change that.
In late 2016, he returned to the private practice of law and opened Cattie, PLLC, a law firm whose mission was to extinguish a client’s future medical exposure under the MSP Act. By providing legal advice about what Medicare’s rights of recovery were under federal law and what a client’s obligations were under the MSP Act, John’s firm was unique in that clients could obtain MSA legal advice and rely on that and that alone as the means of resolving a case and closing the file.
Today, John is the Managing Member of Cattie & Gonzalez, PLLC. Along the way, John has become one of the nation’s most well-respected names in the MSA industry. He has become a nationally known author and speaker, experienced in all components of MSA law and procedure. He has personally reviewed or overseen the review of over 13,000 distinct fact patterns. John V. Cattie is the Managing Member of Cattie & Gonzalez, PLLC. His law firm resolves healthcare liens, provides legal advice about compliance with federal laws such as the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, and protects claimants’ future access to Medicare & Medicaid benefits when resolving workers’ compensation, auto, liability insurance, or no-fault insurance claims involving bodily injuries.
Cattie started in the healthcare subrogation space with Garretson Resolution Group (Garretson) in 2008, building out its Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) group from the ground up. Over time, Cattie recognized that clients preferred to work with lawyers providing legal advice instead of vendors who cannot provide legal advice. To provide clients with a higher level of service and advice, he left Garretson and launched his law firm in 2016.
Today, Cattie works with clients on single event and mass tort cases nationwide to verify, resolve, and satisfy reimbursement obligations associated with Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Medicare Prescription Drug, Medicaid, Veterans’ Administration (VA), Tricare, ERISA, and other insurance plans which assert reimbursement rights for medical expenses. Since opening his firm, Cattie averages 86% lien reductions for Medicare A/B, 73% lien reductions for Medicare Advantage and Drug Plans, 64% Medicaid lien reductions, 61% ERISA lien reductions, 88% Tricare lien reductions, and 94% VA lien reductions.
Cattie also helps protect a claimant’s future access to Medicare and Medicaid benefits. Cattie has reviewed over 16,000 distinct fact patterns for Medicare Set-Aside (MSA) purposes. Multiple federal and state courts cite his analysis favorably. Cattie is a frequent speaker at CLE and CE events around the country and has written extensively about healthcare subrogation in the Medicare Secondary Payer context.
Cattie received his BA from the University of North Carolina and his JD/MBA from Villanova University.
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