Federal court receives AHA's ideas on fixing Medicare backlog

Modern Healthcare: A federal court has received the American Hospital Association's ideas on reducing the huge backlog of denied Medicare claims. A federal judge may mandate HHS to follow some or all of the ideas in order to curb the ever-growing number of appeals.

The ideas were filed Friday in response to a request from U.S. District Judge James Boasberg. He asked the AHA to submit ideas after he was reportedly frustrated with HHS' inability to process appeals.

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