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Recovery Audit Contractors:

OIG Wants Action on RAC-Identified Improper Payments

Published on Wed Oct 16, 2013

Check your practice for vulnerabilities. If you’ve heard that recovery audit contractors (RACs) identified improper payments totaling over a billion dollars, you heard correctly. But if you heard that CMS was making changes to ensure these issues don’t happen going forward, you may have gotten bad information. That’s the word from the OIG’s report, Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors and CMS’s [...]
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