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HHS Abandons Its Appeal of DC District Court Decision Allowing A Provider to Claim Medicare Bad Debt While Non-Medicare Accounts...

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On February 3, 2016, the Secretary of HHS withdrew her appeal of a United States District Court for the District of Columbia decision invalidating CMS’s policy that a Medicare bad debt cannot be claimed while non-Medicare...more

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The Bad Debt Moratorium Requires a Flexible Approach to Evaluating "Reasonable Collection Efforts"

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On September 10, 2015, District Judge Randolph D. Moss of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an opinion in Mountain States Health Alliance v. Burwell (Mountain States) involving Section 310 of the...more

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CMS's "At a Collection Agency" Bad Debt Policy - Confusion Continues

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As we reported in previous Payment Matters articles, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia has issued inconsistent opinions regarding Medicare's policy not to allow bad debt when that bad debt is still...more

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Medicare Bad Debts and CMS's "At a Collection Agency Policy" - New Uncertainty

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As reported in previous Payment Matters articles (6/11/08, 4/4/13 and 6/27/13), the United States District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled in two separate opinions that a Medicare contractor is not permitted to...more

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CMS Accepts Court Ruling That Bad Debt Still at Collection is Allowable

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As we reported in a recent Payment Matters article, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled this spring, for a second time, that a Medicare contractor is not permitted to disallow Medicare bad debt...more

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D.C. District Court Again Rules That Bad Debt at a Collection Agency is Allowable

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The United States District Court for the District of Columbia recently ruled, again, that a Medicare contractor is not permitted to disallow Medicare bad debts solely on the ground that the bad debt is still at an outside...more

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