Study: Medicare Appeals Process Reforms Not Enough to Eliminate Backlog

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) current and proposed reforms may not be enough to eliminate the appeals backlog and restore a timely and fair appeals process. That was the finding of a study published recently in the Journal of Hospital Medicine. Researchers investigated all appeals reaching level three at three facilities: Johns…

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