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Industry Notes: Check Out New Medicare Appeals Options
If you rarely need appeals advice, that's a good thing. It means your claims are good-to-go by Medicare standards. But occasional slip-ups do happen, and CMS now offers an option that may expedite your appeals process - for a price.
"As part of the broader Department of Health & Human Services commitment to improving the Medicare appeals process," CMS will offer an additional settlement option for provider and supplier appellants with appeals pending at the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals and the Medicare Appeals Council at the Departmental Appeals Board, the agency says on its "Appeals Settlement...
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