Medicare providers continue to bemoan the work of Recovery Auditors, who review their claims for accuracy. They falsely claim that the findings of Recovery Auditors (RAs) are wrong and must be constantly appealed – leading to an overwhelming Medicare appeals backlog. In her latest guest column in McKnights, Westfourth VP and spokesperson for The Council for Medicare Integrity, Kristin Walter, shares that RAs actually have a 95% accuracy rate and the latest data from the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) further dispels the myths perpetuated by providers.
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