Alere Challenges Medicare Billing Block

The company, which had its Medicare supplier billing number revoked in November, filed an appeal with an administrative law judge. Alere also asked the US District Court for the District of Columbia to force CMS to allow its Arriva unit to stay in the competitive bidding program while the ALJ appeal is pending.

Alere Inc. unit Arriva Medical LLC is fighting the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’s decision to ban Arriva from billing Medicare over fraud allegations.

The company appealed its suspension to a CMS administrative law judge (ALJ), who should hear the case within 30 days...

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