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Paul McChesney (Admin)
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Username: Admin
Post Number: 973
Registered: 5-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 01, 2005 - 11:12 am: | 
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Something about who I am can be found here: Paul's Bio Page, or you can really learn a lot about me by studying this website, starting at our home page. The following posts tell a little more. Please type in a question below if you have any other questions about me or my firm. |
ac_onion
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 22, 2004 - 8:09 pm: |
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I
have a specific question my regarding Medicare enrollment. I am 37,
single and receiving SSDI benefits as of June 2001 entitlement. My
entitlement for Part A hospital insurance started in June 2003. My Part
B medical insurance started in June 2004. (The Part B was not processed
on time if you’re wondering why the date differs from Part A - I
elected not to take the Part B earlier entitlement date of 2003. I’m
keeping it as they have it currently at June 2004.) Along with my
notice of award that I received in June came a yellow card. This card
states that if I don’t want the medical insurance I have up until
September 1, 2004 to send this card back to SS. I currently have
individual health insurance, not group.
My question is this:
If I cancel Part B in August, can I enroll again between Jan-Mar of
2005 without penalty? I got two different answers to this question and
I need a tie-breaker.
P.S. Also, what exactly happens if I don't return the yellow card until after Sept 1?
P.P.
S. I noticed that Paul McChesney answers all of these questions. Paul -
may I respectfully ask what your credentials are? Many Thanks. |
Paul McChesney (Admin)
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 879
Registered: 5-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, November 14, 2004 - 4:21 pm: |
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Q. If I cancel Part B in August, can I enroll again between Jan-Mar of 2005 without penalty?
A. I don't know. I am not a great expert on Medicare.
Q. Also, what exactly happens if I don't return the yellow card until after Sept 1?
A. Don't know. Again, I only know a little about Medicare.
Q. I noticed that Paul McChesney answers all of these questions. Paul - may I respectfully ask what your credentials are?
A.
Sure. As is evident from the above, I claim little expertise in regard
to Medicare. These are my credentials for Social Security disability
and SSI:
-I am an attorney. I graduated from The Citadel and
Duke Law School, and clerked for Justice Littlejohn of the SC Supreme
Court.
-I have handled mostly Social Security disability and SSI
claims since 1979. I handle a moderate number of worker's compensation
claims. I handle just about no Medicare claims.
-I am now handling
about 20-30 hearings in these cases a month. My staff gathers all of
the evidence in each case, and I look at it and try to figure out what
steps to take to win that case. While they are taking those steps, I
pick up the next case and try to figure that one out. I spend about 50
hours a week doing that and trying cases. Anyone who does that for 20
years will get a pretty good idea of what works and what doesn't.
-I
only get paid in these cases if I win. I cannot win unless I study the
process carefully. So I have spent whatever time it has taken between
1979 and now trying to figure out how to win these cases. I am not
brilliant, but I have put all the brains I have into this one place. It
is possible that you could do almost anything better than me - except,
I am pretty sure, talk to a person and look at his medical records and
from that figure out how to give him his best chance of winning his SS
case.
-I have been invited to present seminars on Social Security
disability before other attorneys on the state and national level by
organizations such as NOSSCR, the National Association of Social
Security Claimant's Representatives.
-All of this is not to say
that I am always right. I am a fallible person who has done the things
listed above for a long time. I try to be careful, but I am not
perfect. You should be careful yourself, by taking my statements as
suggestions for further inquiry only. While none of us can be
completely objective, I do try to be honest and deliver what I think
without spin, describing the world as it does work, rather than as it
is supposed to work, or as I hope it would work, or as I would guess it
might work, and to admit ignorance when I am ignorant.
-To oversimplify, the web has 3 sorts of content.
One sort is almost pure spin, websites designed solely to get you to do
or buy something. The author might know the truth, but uses it
sparingly, and freely and deliberately mixed with plausible falsehood.
Buy my miracle cure.
The second sort is a jumble of truth and
falsehood. The author is well intentioned, but honestly mistaken,
coming to conclusions based on too little experience or knowledge. I
tried the miracle cure, and it worked.
The third sort is truth
mixed with as little falsehood as the substantial experience of the
author allows. We tried the miracle cure on 40 people and a similar
placebo on another 40 in a double blind test, and these are the
results. I hope you will find this website to be of the third sort; my
effort and intent has been to make it so.
(Message edited by admin on April 06, 2005) |
Dan Boyle
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 12, 2004 - 7:32 am: |
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I
am assisting an elderly female, South Carolina, medicade recipiant in
finding a surgeon who will perform a gastric by-pass operation. Do you
have any suggestions? |
Paul McChesney (Admin)
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 824
Registered: 5-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - 4:51 am: |
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I
do not. "Law school sharpens and narrows." I am sharp about Social
Security, and my range of knowledge is, because of my focus, pretty
narrow.
If you are asking who would be good, I really have no
suggestions. If you are asking who might do it at all, my only
suggestion is to hit the phone book, and do not neglect hospitals that
have residents in training. |
Anonymous
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 10:16 pm: |
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I
have a question, who is the best attorney in north carolina, for
worker's comp and wrongful termination cases. Also an attorney who is
not afraid to take on city hall. so to speak. |
Paul McChesney (Admin)
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 1448
Registered: 5-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 9:48 am: |
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Anonymous: Hah! Call me and we will talk about it. There are different sorts of "best" depending on what you need and want. |
ARTHGUFF (Unregistered Guest)
Unregistered guest
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 17, 2005 - 5:29 am: |
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I
just wanted to say thank you for this web site. It answered all my
questions without having to ask them.Please keep up the good work
helping people like us with disabilities. |
Ellie Iverson (Ellie)
New member
Username: Ellie
Post Number: 1
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 28, 2005 - 6:06 pm: |
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I
want to thank you for being so authentic, generous, and humble. This
website is an extraordinary gift to disabled people and those who have
loved ones who need assistance with the monstrous SSA. Is there a way
to make your site my homepage? - Thanks again. |
Anonymous
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 06, 2006 - 3:19 pm: |
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Hi.
I just read your Bio and enjoyed reading it. I was just wondering if there were alot of Social Security Disability Attorneys in Charlotte, N.C. I am relocating to Charlotte and at the present time I work in a law firm and I work on disability cases. I would love to continue with this type of work.
By the way this is a great site!. |
Paul McChesney (Admin)
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 1070
Registered: 5-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 12, 2006 - 4:30 pm: |
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Talk to Maggie DeVries, 704 342 4200, at Mack Sasser's firm. She is a good person and a sharp SS lawyer. |
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