By Susan Jaffe | Kaiser Health News | June 29, 2016 | This KHN story also ran on 
The Department of Health and Human Services Tuesday proposed key changes in the Medicare appeals process to help reduce the backlog of more than 700,000 cases involving denied claims.
The measures “will help us get a leg up on this problem,” said Nancy Griswold, chief law judge of the Office of Medicare Hearing and Appeals.
If there weren’t a single additional appeal filed and no changes in the system, it would take 11 years to eliminate the backlog, Griswold said in an interview. [Continued on NPR or KHN]
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