Health Law Scan

If your organization has faced a Medicare audit in the last decade, you may have experienced a significant delay in the Medicare appeals process due to a monumental backlog of claims pending in front of administrative law judges (ALJs). As a result, the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) has initiated several pilot programs and received a significant boost in funding following a federal court decision requiring OMHA to develop a plan to reduce this backlog.