Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Recovery Audit Contractors:

OIG Asks CMS To Take Immediate Action On Potential Fraud

RACs identify improper payments totaling over a billion dollars. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has yet to take action on vulnerabilities identified by the recovery audit contractors (RACs) according to the OIG’s report, Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors and CMS’s Actions to Address Improper Payments, Referrals of Potential Fraud, and Performance, which the agency released last week to [...]
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