Coming soon: Recovery auditor prepayment reviews
Recovery Auditor Report, June 28, 2012
Last November, CMS unveiled three demonstration projects aimed at reducing improper payments in the Medicare program. A few months later on February 3, 2012, CMS announced that it would be delaying two of the three of these demonstrations, one of which is the Recovery Auditor prepayment review demonstration.
Though the CMS website lists the start date as “Summer of 2012,” the delay—which came as a result of comments and concerns from providers— originally pushed the the official launch to June 1, 2012. If we are, in fact, in the midst of the Recovery Auditor prepayment review demonstration, there has been no official announcement. Despite this fact, if providers have not already begun doing so, they should take action, according to Sharon Easterling, MHA, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, CEO of Recovery Analytics in Charlotte, N.C.
“With the shift of the RAC to up-front documentation review, providers should implement concurrent processes in their case management and utilization review areas,” she says. “From there, you should have second level review done by a physician for these particular DRGs.”
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