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
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
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
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
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
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