G-2 Compliance Report

RAC Requests: Medicare providers in some parts of the country will begin receiving records requests from recovery audit contractors by July as the full post-payment review program begins rolling out nationwide, according to a spokesman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS does not expect RACs to begin conducting complex reviews that would include medical necessity reviews until 2010, after the contractors have established themselves in their respective regions, the spokesman said. …