Rachel Hold-Weiss

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223 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 10 Jul

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AHLA's Speaking of Health Law · Audit Defense: What Health Care Providers and Attorneys Need to Know · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

So there is no precedential value.

So you could win 15 cases and number 16, the judge will say, you know, I don't have to abide by that.

So that's the first thing that's a little bit, you know, different when people go up to ALJ.

Also, we have had experiences where ALJs are really interested in the case, ask really good questions.

You can tell that they've prepped beforehand.

They understand the context because they're not clinicians, right?

So sometimes they understand what's going on.

And then there are other cases where you can tell that they're completely disinterested and they have no care for the case that's before them.

So that's really hard and you have to not take it personally because you prep for so many hours and you're going up before this ALJs and you've done all this work.

So that can be a little tough.

The other thing that I would say is, and this is not a blanket because there are legal reasons to sometimes take all of the cases up if there's a legal strategy involved.

But if there is no...

overarching legal strategy that you need to get into federal district court or you're going to go to the DAB level.

If it's purely a clinical case based on records, not in an industry that there are lawsuits being filed overall and things like that,

I would say also look at with an objective view, or if you're using consultants, which definitely should do that, look, objective view as to whether the claim should go to ALJ in the first place.

Is it, you know, will it withstand the laugh test?

Can you stand there in front of the ALJ and adequately defend that case?

So sometimes the answer is yes.

Sometimes the answer is no, but again, there's an overarching legal strategy, but sometimes,

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