New Webcast: How Recovery Audit Contractors are Driving the Reassessment of Established CDI Programs
On February 28, 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that more than $371 million in improper Medicare payments had been collected from or repaid to healthcare providers and suppliers in 2007 from just three states: California, Florida, and New York. The project is expanding in 2008. By 2010, CMS expects to have four Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) in place, each responsible for one fourth of the country. This initiative makes clinical documentation improvement (CDI) more important than ever. Established programs are taking a "check-up" to ensure they are functioning optimally.
Navigant Consulting is conducting a complimentary one-hour webcast to provide a brief overview of this timely issue. The webcast will cover the following topics:
- An overview of RAC regulation
- RAC results
- RAC expansion
- How RACs really work
- Insights from the initial states
- Reassessing CDI programs in light of RACs
- Other steps that will help prepare for change