NCDs, LCDs and HBO
A funny thing happened on the way to an appeal today. When I educate providers on researching LCDs for Medicare appeals, I always recommend accessing the LCDs through the CMS Coverage Database https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/overview-and-quick-search.aspx rather than through the FI or MAC website because I have often found that the LCDs…
CMS Posts Latest RAC Recovery Dollars
CMS has posted on their website an update of overpayments and underpayments thus far (through March 2011) from the RAC program. The publication is titled 2011 FFS Newlestter. It’s interesting that the overpayments collected for the first three months of 2011 is more than double what was collected during the last three…
Yomi Faparusi Published in “Compliance Today”
Yomi Faparusi, Sr., MD, JD, PhD, Intersect Healthcare’s Director of Medical Review & Research was recently published in the Heath Care Compliance Association’s (HCAA) magazine “Compliance Today”. Dr. Faparusi’s article “Preventive medicine: Root cause analysis and the RAC audit process” appeared in the August 2010 edition of…
VERACITY Revenue Integrity & Compliance System Compatible with the AHA RACTrac Initiative
BALTIMORE, MD – January 26, 2010 – Intersect Healthcare, the leading provider of healthcare data management, analytics, decision-support, and process automation solutions to healthcare provider organizations, today announced that VERACITY™, Intersect Healthcare’s all-payer audit and compliance management software is compatible with the American Hospital…