JUST RELEASED: MLN Matters Article #SE1024 - Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Demonstration High-Risk Vulnerabilities - No Documentation or Insufficient Documentation Submitted
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released MLN Matters Special Edition Article #SE1024 as the first in a series of articles concerning RAC high-dollar improper payment vulnerabilities. These articles are intended to provide education about RAC demonstration-identified vulnerabilities in an effort to prevent these same problems from occurring in the future. This article in particular focuses on Medicare's documentation requirements and how to avoid unnecessary denial of claims. For more details, please read the article at http://www.cms.gov/MLNMattersArticles/downloads/SE1024.pdf <http://www.cms.gov/MLNMattersArticles/downloads/SE1024.pdf> on the CMS website. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------- Note: If you have problems accessing any hyperlink in this message, please copy and paste the URL into your Internet browser. If you know someone who would like to subscribe to a FFS provider listserv, go to (http://www.cms.gov/prospmedicarefeesvcpmtgen/downloads/Provider_Listser vs.pdf) . If you received this message as part of the All FFS Providers listserv, you are currently subscribed to one of eighteen Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) provider listservs. If you would like to be removed from all NIH listservs, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/LISTSERV_WEB/signoff.htm) to unsubscribe. If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific provider listserv, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/show_list_archives) to unsubscribe or to leave the appropriate listserv. Please DO NOT respond to this email. This email is a service of CMS and routed through an electronic mail server to communicate Medicare policy and operational changes and/or updates. Responses to this email are not routed to CMS personnel. Inquiries may be sent by going to (http://www.cms.gov/ContactCMS). Thank you.
