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What is RAC (pronounced "Rack")? • The Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) is a CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) program designed to detect and correct improper past payments made on claims of health care services provided to Medicare beneficiaries. • Since the start of the program in three states in 2003 $1.03 billion of improper Medicare payments have been identified, with 96% of these representing overpayments due to coding issues. This program can result in fines in addi… Continue

As a Practice Management Consulting company our business has a lot of facets that I do not feel that I have been able to get across in a 45 second commercial, so I am going to do 2 things: 1. Try to get better at 45 second commercials and 2. Post a blog for each of the features that our business offers to help you better understand our big picture. I hope this will help you, because I know approaching a doctor to get us a referral can be both uncomfortable and intimidating. I will try to lay ea… Continue