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What Can You Do to Prepare for a RAC Audit? Assess your risk for coding and billing issues by performing an internal audit of your own practices. Check that all billing codes are supported with appropriate documentation in the medical record.
Recovery auditing is the systematic process of reviewing disbursement transactions and the related supporting data to identify and recover various forms of over payments and under-deductions to suppliers. In other words, it is the recovery of lost money.
Medicare has instituted the Recovery Auditor Contractor or RAC as a nationwide program to review claims on a post-payment basis. The RACs detect and correct past improper payments so that CMS and its agents can implement actions that will prevent future improper payments.
The goal of the recovery audit program is to identify improper payments made on claims for services provided to Medicare beneficiaries. Improper payments may be overpayments or underpayments. Overpayments can occur when health care providers submit claims that do not meet CMS coding or medical necessity policies.
The RAC lookback period is three years. But because RACs are paid by contingency instead of a contracted rate, there is a limit placed on the RACs authority because they are already incentivized the find problems, plus RACs are allowed to extrapolate. All that changed in April 2022.

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The goal of the recovery audit program is to identify improper payments made on claims for services provided to Medicare beneficiaries. Improper payments may be overpayments or underpayments. Overpayments can occur when health care providers submit claims that do not meet CMS coding or medical necessity policies.
RAC is the abbreviation for recovery audit contractor. The purpose of an RAC is to identify overpayments and underpayments made by the Medicare program under Part A and Part B. The RACs are also responsible for the recoupment of overpayments made to providers.
The Medicare Fee for Service (FFS) Recovery Audit Programs mission is to identify and correct Medicare improper payments through the efficient detection and collection of overpayments made on claims of health care services provided to Medicare beneficiaries, and the identification of underpayments to providers so that

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