Pay-Per-View: RACs are headed your way
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, December 26, 2007
One rehabilitation hospital in California offers a glimpse of what might be your future: It has two full-time staffers handling nothing but the appeal of recovery audit contractor (RAC) decisions.
Not every facility needs what Patricia Blaisdell half-jokingly calls a "RAC appeals department." Still, compliance and auditing professionals across the country should prepare for the arrival of the RAC program, which the CMS plans to roll out nationwide in the next two years.
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