Industry Note:
HHS Moves Patient Appeals To Front Of ALJ Line
Published on Fri Jan 24, 2014
Your claims appeals may be put on hold for two years if you want an ALJ hearing, but your patients’ won’t be. The HHS Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals is putting providers’ requests for ALJ hearings on a two-year wait list (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXIII, No. 3). But "the relatively small numbers of beneficiary-initiated appeals are being immediately [...]