Alere Challenges Medicare Billing Block
Executive Summary
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.
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