Hospitals Push Back After HHS Rejects Their Appeals-Backlog Proposals

The American Hospital Association hit back at HHS for rejecting industry's proposals to fix the backlog of Medicare appeals. If HHS thinks it can eliminate the problem within a few years, AHA says, then it shouldn't oppose court-imposed deadlines for reducing the backlog. The hospital lobby group says that court-imposed deadlines “will give the Secretary the flexibility to explore her options and will give Plaintiffs the assurance that their statutory rights will not be flouted indefinitely.” “And if the Secretary...