Lamon Willis
During our recent webinar, The Five Problem Areas in E/M Audits, many of you posted really great questions. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get to all of them live.
Lamon Willis
Chart audits are a mandatory part of maintaining compliance for your organization, but we all know that regular auditing is demanding. The cost and burden on administrators makes the process difficult.
Lamon Willis
Welcome back to our RAC blog post series. In this installment we’ll cover how to conduct a RAC Audit Risk Assessment.
Lamon Willis
Welcome back to our RAC blog post series. In this installment we’ll consider some of the ramifications for the CMS enhancement and expansion of the RAC program.
Lamon Willis
In our last blog post we talked about the inception of the RAC program. In this blog post we’ll cover expectations for 2016 and some enhancements and expansions to be aware of.
Lamon Willis
The use of electronic health records (EHRs) is steadily increasing due to incentives and the promise of a more efficient system. High-level evaluation and management (E/M) services are also increasing.
Lamon Willis
The RAC program has been controversial ever since its inception when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) instituted the program to identify and correct Medicare improper payments through the detection of overpayments and underpayments made on healthcare claims.
Lamon Willis
Getting the most out of an E/M audit can be as simple as paying extra attention to common coding and documentation errors, common exam mistakes, and Medical Decision Making (MDM) mistakes.
