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Proposed legislation may offer some relief from the threat of recovery audit contractors
From international law firm Arnold & Porter LLP comes a timely column that provides views on current regulatory and legislative topics that weigh on the minds of today’s physicians and health care executives.For any physician practice (or any other provider, for that matter) that has been a target of the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program, proposed legislation introduced by Congressman Sam Graves, R-Mo., offers some hope, or at least a modicum of relief. RACs operate under a contract with the Medicare program to identify potential overpayments as well as underpayments. (Read more...)