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Get To Know Your Recovery Audit Contractor

Published on Fri Feb 17, 2012

RACs' contingency fees range from 9 to 12.5 percent. You may get a costly audit letter from your Recovery Audit Contractor any day, but do you even know its name? Refer to this list to keep them straight and identify how much of your over- or underpayment they'll pocket. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced this information when it began rolling out the RAC program nationwide in 2008: • Region A (Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont) -- Diversified Collection Ser-vices (DCS), Livermore, Calif., 12.45 percent contingency fee. • Region B (Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin) -- CGI Technolo-gies and Solutions, Fairfax, Va., 12.5 percent contingency fee. • Region C (Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Puerto Rico) -- Connolly Healthcare, Wilton, Conn., 9 [...]
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