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Article: HCFA saga nearing end. (Health Care Financing Administration to recover mistaken Medicare claim payments)
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- September 16, 1996
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WASHINGTON - A federal court ruling issued last month could pave the way for employers, insurers and third-party claims administrators to recover - at last - millions of dollars in older workers' health care claims that the federal government improperly demanded they pay.
U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lambert in Washington rejected government arguments that the only victors of a 1994 federal appeals court ruling striking down regulations the government developed to enforce the massive Medicare Data Match project were members of the two insurance trade associations - the Blue Cross & Blue Shield Assn. and the Health Insurance Assn. of America - that challenged those ...