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The Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor \(RAC\) program is authorized by Congress to identify improper Medicare payments - both overpayments and underpayments. RACs are paid on a contingency fee basis, receiving a percentage of the improper payments they identify and collect. RACs currently operate…
On November 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released the outpatient prospective payment system \(OPPS\) final rule for calendar year 2008.
This is a model the impact of the final APC changes on your expected 2008 Medicare revenue. This spreadsheet compares the changes in APC payment rates and weights from 2001-2008, and is referenced in the OPPS AHA Advisory.
The Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor \(RAC\) program is authorized by Congress to identify improper Medicare payments - both overpayments and underpayments. RACs are paid on a contingency fee basis, receiving a percentage of the improper payments they identify and collect. RACs currently operate…
Physician fee schedule final rule also released
On September 5, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) issued the ")Phase III") final rule, the last of its three-part set of rules implementing the 1995 expansion of the physician self-referral ban beyond clinical laboratory services to include 10 other ")designated health care…
On September 7, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) released revised Critical Access Hospital \(CAH\) interpretive guidelines regarding rebuilding and relocating facilities, effective immediately.
Responding to public and congressional concerns about improper or undue influence that special interests and their hired lobbyists either appeared or were alleged to have had over high-ranking government officials, Congress in September adopted The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act.