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Health Law Partners Warn of
Increased Medicare Auditing Activity
07.10.09, 09:43 AM EDT
BusinessWire - --RAC Denials
and Overpayment Demands Can
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The Health Law Partners, P.C. (www.thehlp.com), today
released a HealthCare Notification entitled: What All Health
Care Providers and Suppliers Need To Know About the
Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Program.
Written by Abby Pendleton, Esq.
and Jessica L.Gustafson, Esq.,
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program has been made permanent and is expanding
nationwide. In the very near future, the substantive RAC
auditing activity is planned to begin in Michigan, New York,
California and Florida,among other states.
Pendleton states, "It is without question that physician
practices must begin to prepare now for what promises to be
an unprecedented time in terms of Medicare, Medicaid and
other payor audit scrutiny."
Pendleton and Gustafson suggest that the Medicare RAC
program will definitely change the landscape of the health care
environment prompting providers to pay careful attention to
medical documentation and coding practices. The authors
encourage all physicians to take measures to enhance current
documentation practices keeping in mind that records could be
selected for audit at some point in the future.
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ABOUT THE HEALTH LAW PARTNERS, PC
The Health Law Partners, P.C. ("HLP"), (www.thehlp.com), was
founded by a team of attorneys, each of whom practices
exclusively in the area of national health care law, for the
purpose of providing solutions to health care providers' and
organizations' legal, business and reimbursement challenges.
The Health Law Partners is located in Southfield, MI.
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