tci Part B Insider - 2010 Issue 19

Recovery Audit Contractorst: RACs Can No Longer Keep Fees After Losing Appeals, CMS Says

Plus: You'll soon be able to review the most common errors that the RACs find.CMS is attempting to limit the amount of bounty that the so-called RAC "bounty hunters" are able to collect, to the delight of many providers.During the RACs' original demonstration period, if the RAC lost an appeal at the initial level, it had to return its contingency fee, but if the RAC lost at a later level, it got to keep the fee. Now, however, "if the RAC loses at any level of appeal, the RAC must return the contingency fee," said CMS's...

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