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Amniotic Fluid / Amniotic Membrane Tissue Audits, Investigations and Prosecutions are Continuing to Climb in 2022

(August 4, 2022): Over the past year, we have seen a significant increase in the number of Medicare administrative audits, False Claims Act investigations and criminal prosecutions by the Department of Justice (DOJ), related to the billing of allogeneic (harvested from someone else) stem cell products. Medicare and Medicaid claims stemming from amniotic liquid and […]

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HHS Issues Final Rule to Address Record High Medicare Appeals Backlog

(January 20, 2017): The Medicare appeals backlog has reached its all-time worst. If you’re a healthcare provider or supplier waiting for a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) at the Office of Medicare Hearings and Medicare Appeals (OMHA) – the third level of the Medicare appeals process – you’ve likely been waiting years to

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The Medicare Appeals Process is Broken

(May 5, 2015): As the health care providers and suppliers we represent can easily attest, there are serious problems plaguing the current Medicare appeals process. Rubber-stamp denials by contractors[1] at lower levels of appeal, the failure of Medicare contractors to apply the correct coverage rules and requirements when assessing a claim, and lengthy delays in

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OMHA Changes ALJ Hearing Case System

(March 2, 2012): Likely recognizing the enormous disparity in Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) hearing workloads for its various Field Offices, the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) recently switched to a Central Docketing System for all pending and new appeals. Under this new system, all ALJ hearing requests will be sent to OMHA’s Central

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Are Medicare ALJs Truly Independent Fact Finders?

(February 20, 2011): Over the years, we have represented a wide variety of health care providers in the administrative appeals process. Our duties have regularly included representation before Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) presiding out of the Western, Southern, Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic Field Offices of the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals. (OMHA). In the course

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