Industry Note:
Skipping 1st Medicare Appeal Level Doesn't Get You Ahead
Published on Fri Jan 18, 2019
Don’t waste your appeals time and effort by falling into a common trap. The problem: “Recently, we have noticed an increase in the number of initial appeal requests sent as a Reconsideration before a Redetermination has been requested,” reports HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor CGS on its website. Medicare has five appeals levels, and Redetermination by the MAC is the first [...]