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RAC Audits Now a Potential Risk for Physicians
Two of the four RACs added Medically Unlikely Edits to their list of CMS-approved issues earlier this year, which gives...
White House Announces Plan to Crack Down on Medicare Fraud
President Obama announced a new effort to crack down on waste and fraud in Medicare and Medicaid and other programs...
Should Feds Remove Small Practices from Red Flags Compliance?
An author on Red Flags Rule compliance says that eliminating small practices from complying with the FTC's identity...
Web Exclusive: AHA: New IRS Method Doesn't Show True Costs of Charity Care
Schedule H, the Internal Revenue Service's new method of quantifying nonprofit hospitals' charity care and community...
Avoid RAC Threat by Understanding Extrapolation Process
During the demonstration project, RACs chose not to apply the process of extrapolation, and while they have yet to use...
Senate Reform Bill Would Expand RAC Program
The Senate health reform bill would broaden the current RAC program to cover Medicare Part C and D as well as the...
Magazine: The RAC Reserve Debate
The question is whether hospitals should establish reserve funds as the government's Recovery Audit Contractor program...
Be Prepared for Recovery Audit Contractors
A three-year pilot program launched in 2006 helped CMS start taking a much closer look at Medicare claims, processes...
CMS Releases Updated RAC Expansion Schedule
CMS has revised its RAC expansion schedule, according to the new "RAC Phase In Map" posted February 10 to the...
Dispute with IRS threatens Detroit-area clinic serving the poor
The Whitmore Lake Health Clinic near Detroit has provided care for 38 years to uninsured and underinsured residents of...

Book: Auditing Evaluation and Management Coding:
This easy-to-follow book and CD-ROM provides the expert advice and guidance you need to perform an E/M audit at your...
Audio Conference: How to Survive a Medicare Audit:
You can survive a Medicare audit with the first hand advice provided during the 90-minute audioconference. Our...
Book: The RAC Survival Guide:
The RAC Survival Guide is a comprehensive resource that will help you navigate the complex RAC process from beginning...
Book: Marketer's Guide to Community Benefit Reporting and IRS Form 990H
This book and CD-ROM shows healthcare marketers how to gather data effectively from every corner of their organizations...
Audio Conference: RAC Complex Coding and DRG Targets
Approximately 75% of all MS-DRGs have been identified by RACs as target areas. This 90-minute live audio conference...