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CMS sets plans for RAC contractor expansion
In an inevitable, but still widely feared, next step, CMS has taken the first steps in phasing in its Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program, announcing the four new contractors that will administer... Read more...
CMS: Providers lose almost 70 percent of RAC appeals
CMS has released a new report stating that Medicare has recovered more than $1 billion through the Recovery Audit Contractor program since 2005, with 85 percent of the money having been taken back... Read more...
Is this how CMS should fight Medicare fraud?
Let's face it, if everyone who deserved a traffic ticket actually got one, state and local governments would be rolling in the dough. Just about everyone speeds past red lights at the last minute,... Read more...
