Lori Brocato is currently HealthPort's RCM and RACPro Product Manager and serves as our resident expert on the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program. In 2009 Lori served as a monthly co-contributor in Advance Magazine for Health Information Professionals' e-newsletter, RAC ready column, that served as a "monthly RAC survival guide."
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Updated Medicare RAC Demonstration Report
CMS recently released the January 2009 update to the Medicare RAC Demonstration Report.
The update document outlines current Medicare appeals statistics and claim
RAC’s through August 2008 and lists statistics with respect to provider appeals of RAC initiated overpayments. CMS also reports that changes in appeals reporting are being implemented for appeals tracking in the permanent RAC program.
Additionally in the update, CMS indicates that it is unable to determine the amount of appeals ending at the first level of appeals; however, the majority of first level appeals should have been filed by July 1, 2008. As a result, CMS plans on updating the above appeals statistics until all appeals have completed the Medicare appeals system.
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