Medicare appeals plan: HCFA's newest twist.
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This notice is to advise the public that the Social Security Administration's Office of Hearings and Appeals (SSA, OHA) has recently been given temporary jurisdiction over Medicare Part B, Supplementary Medical Insurance, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) hearings. Medicare Part A, Hospital Insurance, ALJ hearings and Medicare entitlement matters continue under SSA, OHA's jurisdiction.
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The increase in arbitrary Medicare coverage denials has resulted in the degradation of American medical care. In this article, the authors discuss the positive impact of one Connecticut case, Fox v. Bowen, on the effort to end improper coverage denials.
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A large financial holding company, Norwest has been studying employee health benefit utilization, provider performance and more by comparing actual experience to projected norms using a DRG-based methodology. The Hewitt Associates Consultant who works with the Company explains how this process has revealed new facts crucial to health cost management planning.
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An unexpected, but everpresent, by-product of the development of the health care insurance industry is the tendency of those using the industry's services to "game" the system. While fraud and abuse in the claiming of insurance benefits are not the only or the most significant cause of steeply rising health care costs, they certainly contribute to the problem. Payers are advised to maintain a sharp eye for potential fraud and abuse and to observe some simple rules for detecting and eliminating them.