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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...
Web Exclusive: Let's Discuss the RAC Discussion Period
It seems that many providers still struggle to understand the Recovery Audit Contractor discussion period that CMS has...
Web Exclusive: Have a RAC Question? CMS Has Some Answers
While none of the newest Recovery Audit Contractor FAQs released by CMS are particularly surprising, they are perhaps a...
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...
RAC Protest Resolved: CMS to Continue RAC Program Implementation
CMS announced February 6 the permanent RAC program is once again underway as the RAC bid protests filed by Viant, Inc...
Web Exclusive: Ready or Not, Here Come the RACs
Recovery audit contractors are coming, if not this year then next. And they will be authorized to look through your...
Scariest Halloween Costume: RAC Man
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is moving forward with its permanent RAC initiative despite the...

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...