Industry Note:
CMS Presses 'Pause' On RAC Reviews
Published on Fri Feb 28, 2014
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has removed home health agencies from Recovery Audit Contractor prepayment review edits. But the current impact should be minimal, because RACs’ prepay review edits didn’t generate any ADRs for HHAs anyway, notes Medicare Ad-ministrative Contractor National Government Ser-vices in a message to providers. CMS first implemented its prepay review program in fall 2012 [...]