Could RAC mass adjustment changes mean increase in automatic audits?
Providers who believe their RAC denials will be limited to 200 every 45 days (corresponding with the medical record request limits) may be in for a surprise. Those limits apply only to complex audits, but no such limits exist for the number of automatic reviews RACs can perform. “RACs can do as many [automated reviews] as they want. I think it is in people’s heads that they can look at only 200 at any one time, but that’s really not true,” says Kimberly Anderwood Hoy, JD, CPC, director of Medicare and compliance for HCPro, Inc. In fact, recent changes to the RAC process for handling mass quantities of recoupments from automatic reviews may even make it easier for RACs to increase their auditing capabilities—meaning the potential for even more denials for providers. In the past few weeks CMS released three transmittals (R561OTN, R571OTN and R573OTN) detailing several technical changes to “enhance” the RAC mass adjustment process. Essentially, the changes improve the process for the RACs
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