HHS: Medicare Appeals Backlog Could Be Eliminated In Fiscal 2022

HHS projects that recent settlements and increased funding from Congress should allow the department to eliminate the Medicare appeals backlog in fiscal 2022 -- assuming the higher funding level for the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals continues -- so the district court shouldn't require anything but status reports from the department. However, HHS still says it would be impossible to meet the district court's previous order that the queue be eliminated by 2021. The department says in a brief...