Avoid RAC technical denials to protect reimbursement
Recovery Auditor Report, August 6, 2009
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Do not get a technical denial.
Do not get a technical denial.
Do not get a technical denial.
This was the advice provided by Stacey Levitt, RN, MSN, CPC, director of patient care management at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City who spoke during the July 21 HCPro audio conference “Medicare Appeals: Overturn RAC Denials Using the Medicare Appeal Process.”
Hospitals will see that RAC technical denials can have a large impact on their bottom line, said Levitt. And many times they are completely avoidable.
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