Posts Tagged ‘Medicare appeals’
HHS Takes Another Shot at Reducing Medicare Appeals Backlog
In an effort to clear the ever-growing Medicare appeals backlog, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has announced the launch of two new settlement options for providers and suppliers: a low-volume appeals (LVA) settlement and an expanded Settlement Conference Facilitation (SCF) process. LVA will be limited to appellants with a low volume of…
Read MoreStudy: Medicare Appeals Process Reforms Not Enough to Eliminate Backlog
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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