ALJ Delay Stops Due Process for Providers

In a recent Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) forum on the overwhelming administrative law judge (ALJ) appeal backlog, AAHomecare’s Tom Ryan and Jay Witter listened to Chief Judge Nancy Griswold and others from CMS discuss the situation and their proposed solutions. However, as Ryan pointed out during the forum’s Q&A portion, “The entire audit process is broken.”