This past week the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) posted a report of a nationwide review of inpatient rehabilitation facilities' transmission of patient assessment instruments for 2006 and 2007.
Providers in Florida have gotten used to all the jokes about our fine state, and in particular the one about the city of Miami being the epicenter, or ground zero, of Medicare fraud.
Automated reviews of outpatient topics and/or DME topics are underway across most of the country, and Connolly Healthcare, the RAC contractor for region C, has released a set of 24 approved issues for DRG and discharge validation.
It is great to breathe a great big sign of relief! No, the RACs have not gone away, but they have finally become operational (rather than informational), and the first targets have been revealed.