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Medicaid is a state program which pays medical bills and related expenses for certain qualified, low-income families.  When a person is injured in an accident in New Hampshire, and is represented by an attorney, that attorney is required by law to reimburse the State of New Hampshire for the amount Medicaid paid on behalf of any client who received the benefit of those payments. 

New Hampshire lawyers who represent people receiving Medicaid benefits have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the State of New Hampshire, and continue to do so every year.  If these cases did not proceed or successfully get resolved, the State of New Hampshire would never get that money back. 

New Hampshire law specifically prohibits lawyers from receiving any kind of fee from the amount that must be paid to the State of New Hampshire for Medicaid reimbursement.  New Hampshire lawyers, therefore, regularly pay large sums of money to the State of New Hampshire at no charge to taxpayers.