While hospitals do not appeal many denials from recovery audit contractors, those denials that are appealed often lead to successful results. Across the nation, hospitals are appealing roughly ...

The Medicare Recovery Audit program has been around for roughly six years now, although it was a demonstration for the first three years. However, fiscal year 2011 was one of the most impactful years ...

CMS has finalized new contracts for its controversial Medicare Fee-for-Service Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) program, which pays contractors to research and identify Medicare overpayments to ...

With the nationwide rollout of the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program under way, it’s crucial that hospitals and health systems act now to prepare for the process so that they don’t find ...

The RAC Web sites are starting to post more information relating to the details of their complex review processes, to the benefit of providers everywhere. All but one (Connolly) of the RACs also has ...

Providers who believe their RAC denials will be limited to 200 every 45 days (corresponding with the medical record request limits) may be in for a surprise. Those limits apply only to complex audits, ...

This post was contributed by Louis J. Goodman, PhD, Board member of the Physicians Foundation and Tim Norbeck, CEO of the Physicians Foundation. We recently received a letter from a young practicing ...

Although many Americans are focused on the key points of the proposed health care reform legislation, health care providers are instead focusing on existing legislation that could negatively impact ...

Q: We keep hearing about RAC reviews. Are they really going to affect nursing homes? A: They already are. We were recently involved in a RAC audit appeal process. Nursing facilities should be prepared ...

Requests for medical records from Medicare recovery auditors (RACs) are up 47 percent since 2012's fourth quarter, according to an American Hospital Association survey of more than 12,000 hospitals.