Quoted from McKnight News December 7, 2016: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has until Dec. 31, 2020 to eliminate the backlog of pending Medicare reimbursement appeals, a federal court ordered on Monday. The order from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia follows a timeline proposed by the American Hospital Association, which brought the suit against HHS over its “highly backlogged administrative process.” Judge James E. Boasberg, who authored Monday’s opinion, had stated in an…..