Appeals Court Revives Hospitals' Suit Over Medicare ALJ Backlog

A federal appeals court revived the American Hospital Association's lawsuit over the backlog at the third level of the Medicare appeals process after a lower court dismissed it and said that HHS and Congress, and not the courts, needed to address the issue. The appeals court ordered the district court to look at the case again and decide whether HHS can be compelled to meet the deadline for making decisions on appeals at the Administrative Law Judge level. The federal...