Recovery auditing in Medicare for fiscal year 2013

Did you know that the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) enlists the help of outside Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC’s) to identify and correct improper payments that have occurred? For FY2013, this resulted in the correction of over 1.5 million underpayments and overpayments, and returned in excess of $3.0 billion to the Medicare Trust Fund.Read More