Course Description

The Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program began nationally in 2009 with automated reviews and RACs began complex medical reviews in 2010. Does your organization’s documentation meet the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requirements and support medical necessity? Is your organization’s billing correct and supported by the documentation?

MISCONCEPTION: Once I get paid I keep the money right? Not always. You could lose big bucks in the post-audit. Stricter implications under the new systems could hit therapists where it hurts… in the pocket. Learn what the new systems mean for you and what you should do during the transition.

Ensure that what you bill for and receive is what you keep.

Take this opportunity to learn the ramifications of RACs in the inpatient and outpatient therapy setting. During this 90-minute audio conference RACs: The Past, the Present, and the Future: Are You Ready, speaker Rick Gawenda, P.T., guides therapy professionals through the Medicare RAC maze with a focus on protecting your financial health. Expect to hear strategies to keep your money on claims reviewed by RACs and where and what RACs will be focusing on.

Education is your protection under RACs.

Audio Conference Objectives:
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

? Understand the history of the RACs program
? Understand the impact on therapy in various practice settings
? Understand and Identify changes from the demonstration project to the final RAC
? Understand what you need to do to prevent denials

Outline of Time and Content
90 minutes

• Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) program
  • History
  • Focus on therapy setting
    • Implications to inpatient
    • Implications to outpatient 
  • Current status 
    • Contingency fees
    • CMS’s lessons learned from demonstration project 
    • Changes for going live 
• Medical record update
  • Medical record request limit 
  • How many records can be requested 
• Questions & answers
   

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