DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2015 Issue 7 (July)

Brief: Senate panel approves appeals reform bill to tackle ALJ backlog

To help reduce the nearly 900,000 Medicare claims now await administrative law judge (ALJ) hearings, a bipartisan bill offered by Senate Finance Chairman Orin Hatch, R-Utah, would increase fiscal 2016 funding for the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) by $127 million and by $2 million for the HHS Departmental Appeals Board, the last stop for administrative appeals.

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