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Compliance:

Avoid These 5 Common Compliance Pitfalls

Published on Wed Nov 03, 2010

Don't assume Recovery Audit Contractor audits will pass you by forever. If you're not careful, compliance myths and misperceptions can put you in serious hot water with the authorities. And some beliefs include a mixture of truth and fiction, which makes issues even more murky. Heed this advice as experts set the record straight about a number of prevailing notions. 1. The RACs aren't likely to directly target home health and hospice providers. Attorney Robert Markette Jr. with Gilliland & Markette in Indianapolis notes that Recovery Audit Con-tractor websites "clearly show they are focused on hospitals." And "you do talk to home health agencies who see the RACs as a non-issue, because they have been hearing about them for so long, but nothing has happened." Watch out: Markette predicts those providers will come to regret that perception, however. "At some point the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will pull [...]
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