Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC)
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Urge Your Senator to Support Amendments on RAC Provisions in Senate Committee on Finance Proposal, 6/1/15
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ambiguous policy regarding observation stays leaves hospitals in an untenable position, the AHA said in a friend-of-the-court brief filed yesterday in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The RAC Burden: How a Well-Intentioned Federal Program Has Become a Drain on Hospitals
Mounting Pressure for America's Hospitals
On March 18, CMS issued an Administrators Ruling making immediate (but temporary) changes to its existing rebilling policy and a proposed rule, which would implement a permanent change.
Section 302 of the 2006 Tax Relief and Health Care Act required the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to implement a nationwide Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program by 2010.