One of the most significant changes in the Medicare program recently has been the introduction of "recovery audit contactors" (RACs) as a way of assuring that proper payments are being made for Medicare services. In the new RAC model, contractors are incentivized with contingency fees to find and recoup overpayments to providers of Medicare services.
In this video, Richard Pizzi, Contributing Editor for Healthcare IT News, sits down with Web Editor Chip Means to discuss the healthcare IT implications of RAC auditing - a topic of great interest at a recent RAC summit meeting in Washington, D.C.
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