Thousands of Americans receive insurance claim denials every year, yet many do not realize they have the legal right to ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

This article covers USPTO’s new rules for discretionary denial of IPR and PGR petitions, focusing on factors like timing, prior rulings, and fairness to balance workload and ensure fair decisions.

Original Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and Part D plans can deny coverage for a health service or medication. However, individuals have a legal right to appeal the decision if they think it is ...

After seven long years of heated debate, on June 4, 2025, the U.S. Judicial Conference’s Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure finally approved the framework of a new rule of civil procedure ...

Hospitals and health systems, overburdened by pandemic-induced staff shortages, are in need of tech to improve workflows, reduce stress and save money. The claims denial process, which is a ...

The USPTO has fundamentally altered the PTAB institution decision framework through a March 26, 2025, memorandum from Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart. In a significant departure from existing ...

“Whether, after all of this process, there will in fact be greater clarity, without jeopardizing the availability of proceedings that were supposed to improve and ensure patent quality and provide a ...

“In the first four decisions, the Director ruled that two of the requests for discretionary denial were warranted and two were not.” The first four decisions on discretionary denial of institution ...

Claims denials by insurers are a major source of revenue loss for healthcare providers. Nearly 20% of all claims for medical practices are denied, and alarmingly, up to 60% of these are never ...