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There are a lot of Copy and Paste horror stories. Physicians who accidentally copy and pasted information from one patient’s record to a different patient. Or Copy and Pasting that goes rogue and suddenly, a woman with a family history of breast cancer has a history of breast cancer herself.

Welcome back to our RAC blog post series. In this installment we’ll cover how to conduct a RAC Audit Risk Assessment.

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.

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.

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.

The OIG’s annual Work Plan is an important asset for optimizing your organization’s compliance and auditing efforts because it allows you to identify possible compliance risks.

The OIG’s annual Work Plan is an important asset for optimizing your organization’s compliance and auditing efforts because it allows you to identify possible compliance risks. In reviewing the 2016 OIG Work Plan, there are a total of 25 projects for audit under the OIG audit umbrella:

The OIG’s annual Work Plan is an important asset for optimizing your organization’s compliance and auditing efforts because it allows you to identify possible compliance risks. In reviewing the 2016 OIG Work Plan, there are a total of 25 projects for audit under the OIG audit umbrella: three new...