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Medicare Contractors Look To RACs For Targets

Published on Fri Apr 13, 2012

Recovery Audit Contractors have announced their first home health topics (see Eli's HCW, Vol. XXI, No. 7, p. 50). But RACs may affect home care providers in other ways as well. Other contractors use the RACs' information and data to identify vulnerabilities in the industry, CMS's Latesha Walker explained at the National Association for Home Care & Hospice's March on Washington conference March 26. And all contractors are sharing information in order to be alert to "issues that pop up in one area and not others," she said.
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