CMS Revises RAC Rollout Timeline

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has a new time line for the nationwide rollout of the Permanent Recovery Audit Contractor Program (RAC), the American Hospital Association (AHA) reports. It says the RACs will not begin education and outreach to providers in the first round of states until Oct. 1, the second round until Mar. 1, 2009, and the third round until at least Aug. 1, 2009.

For more information, visit the AHA Web site .

Action , Oct. 1, 2008

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June 15, 2010

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March 23, 2010

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