August 11, 2017
A federal judge acted too hastily when he ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to clear Medicare's huge backlog of hospital billing appeals despite HHS' assertion that such action would be legally impossible, the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday.
February 22, 2017
A district court order requiring the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to eliminate its 650,000-claim backlog of Medicare billing appeals by 2021 will improperly force the agency to pay claims regardless of merit, HHS told the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday.