The US District Court for the District of Columbia issued a mandamus order on November 1 requiring HHS to clear the Medicare administrative appeals backlog by the conclusion of 2022. A dedicated $182.3 million appropriation,...more
As of June 2017, the Office of Medicare, Hearing and Appeals (OMHA) had 607,402 appeals pending with a current estimated wait time of three years for an Administrative Law Judge to process a provider’s appeal. At this rate,...more