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Medicare Claims Appeals System Is Buckling Under Its Own Weight,Senator Says
Published on Fri May 08, 2015
The overloaded Medicare appeals system is getting attention on Capitol Hill. The Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals testified in an April 28 hearing that highlighted the backlog. The processing time for claims received by OMHA has quadrupled to 550 days in the last five years, notes The Hill newspaper. “We definitely feel the urgency,” Nancy Griswold, the chief law [...]