With the nationwide rollout of the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program under way, it’s crucial that hospitals and health systems act now to prepare for the process so that they don’t find ...

Deciding how your own internal processes are going to work once the RAC letters start rolling in is probably one of the most daunting tasks we all are grappling with at the moment. Many hospitals ...

While hospitals do not appeal many denials from recovery audit contractors, those denials that are appealed often lead to successful results. Across the nation, hospitals are appealing roughly ...

The American Hospital Association has released the results of its quarterly RacTrac survey for the first quarter of 2014. The survey measures Medicare recovery auditor, or RAC, activity. AHA created ...

Following the transition, however, RAC operations will resume and auditors will be able to audit claims for dates of service during the period covered by the pause in operations. CMS published a list ...

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cox Smith Matthews Incorporated (“Cox Smith”) today announced the immediate availability of its healthcare practice to provide counseling to companies in Texas who may be ...

Requests for medical records from Medicare recovery auditors (RACs) are up 47 percent since 2012's fourth quarter, according to an American Hospital Association survey of more than 12,000 hospitals.