Manage your fear of the RAC
Case Management Monthly, November 1, 2008
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CMS’ Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program elicits feelings of fear, but Brenda Keeling, RN, CPHQ, CPUR, president and owner of Patient Response in Milburn, OK, says fear is the last thing you should feel when faced with a RAC audit.
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