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AHA Urges Congress to Support RAC Reforms after Long Delays in Assignment of Hospital Appeals to ALJ
The need for fundamental RAC relief has become even more apparent and urgent by operational changes described in the attached memo from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA).
Delays of at least two years in granting an ALJ hearing for an appealed claim are not only unacceptable, they are a direct violation of Medicare statute that requires ALJs to issue a decision within 90 days of receiving the request for hearing.
In 2005, Guernsey County in rural Ohio had the state's second worst late-stage colon cancer rates for patients. Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S., according to the American Cancer Society. In response, a task force was created that included medical staff and…
America’s hospitals strongly oppose a Senate proposal to cut funding for seniors’ Medicare to pay for extended unemployment benefits. While we do not oppose the extension of these benefits, we do oppose using Medicare reductions to pay for non-Medicare related spending
MedPAC indicated that it will not consider the impact of sequestration in its update process until next year, for its FY 2016 recommendations. The AHA is extremely troubled by this framework, which represents an inaccurate and misleading picture of Medicare payments and provider margins.
Despite the compelling policy and business environments for EHR adoption and implementation, the Dr. Perlin and the other authors highlight common logistical and conceptual challenges hindering investment decisions. They suggest that a standard model that allows for consistent comparison across EHR…