RAC Audits

Audits, Audits Everywhere

By Dawn Crump – Like the heavy rains, flooding and snowstorms experienced early this year, a deluge of audits is putting hospitals and health systems in a potentially precarious situation. New audits and activity is already underway. It is imperative that healthcare providers adequately educate themselves and plan ahead for the plethora of audits ahead—old and new.

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The Upside to ICD-10: Defense Against Audits

US Congressional offices informed the ICD-10 Coalition that physicians have been calling in concerned that the increased specificity in the ICD-10-CM codes will lead to an increase in recovery audit contractor (RAC) audits.