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Search - The RAC Toolkit for Physician Practices: Protecting your Bottom Line under Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor Program

The RAC Toolkit for Physician Practices Protecting your Bottom Line under Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor Program
Author: Elizabeth E. Lamkin, Amanda W. Berglund

RACs are auditing practices. Learn how to prepare. The RAC Toolkit for Physician Practices is your practice's answer to turning plans into proactive action for RAC success. Authors Elizabeth Lamkin, MHA, and Amanda Berglund, MS, MBA, describe how to establish and sustain an effective RAC-preparedness structure that can be adapted to fit any ... more »organization's system. They provide best practices for successful processes and outline each staff member's role in your RAC audit program. Physician practice settings are getting audited by RACs. Whether you're dealing with a RAC or another government auditor, you need a program that's running as effectively as it can be. You will use their tested, proven, and practical tools to build a more effective billing compliance program. You'll learn how to bring finance, business office and clinical groups together for operational improvements that drop right to the bottom line. The RAC Toolkit for Physician Practices will help you get the job done right. The RAC Toolkit for Physician Practices will show you how to: * Take a systemic approach to RAC compliance * Incorporate effective structure and processes to existing systems for measurable results * Organize committees and facilitate information flow * Appeal effectively and within deadlines * Use proven tools and methods for an effective RAC program Table of Contents * About the Authors * Introduction * Chapter 1: RAC Overview * Chapter 2: Preparing for RAC * Chapter 3: The Right Structure Organizing the Right Committees * Chapter 4: Critical RAC Roles: Stakeholders and Roles for Prevention of Billing Errors * Chapter 5: Automated Reviews * Chapter 6: Complex and Semi-Automated Reviews and Extrapolation * Chapter 7: The Appeal * List of Acronyms Among the tools you can download are: * RAC appeal timeline * RAC preparedness checklist * RAC committee structure flowchart * Organizational chart for RAC-related personnel * Sample RAC committee meeting agenda * Complex case review worksheet * Automated review timeline * Complex review timeline * CMS form 20027 * CMS form 20034 * CMS form DAB101 * CMS form 20033 Who should read The RAC Toolkit for Physician Practices? Coding supervisors, billing supervisors, practice administrators, practice managers, office managers, RAC coordinators, administrator coding/compliance auditors, compliance officers, compliance coordinators, coding supervisors, and coding specialists.

ISBN-13: 9781601468796
ISBN-10: 1601468792
Publication Date: 10/17/2011
Pages: 110
Edition: 1
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