The Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) has announced the expansion of their Settlement Conference Facilitation (SCF) program.  SCF is a dispute resolution process for Medicare appeals that provides for payments as percentage of the Medicare approved amount.  The percentage is negotiated during a telephone settlement conference utilizing a mediation facilitator.  Utilizing dispute resolution processes such as SCF will be very important in helping to reduce a very significant backlog of Medicare appeals, which the government estimates would take OMHA at least eleven years to process.
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