Session 3 of the Series: Surviving a RAC Attack: Strategies to Reduce Financial Risk

Description:
The RAC program is the latest of many efforts by the CMS to ensure appropriate Medicare payments. Even though RACs will focus on specific issues, their findings can create a specter of fraud. Homecare providers must know how to explain suspicious practices and strengthen compliant care delivery.

This session will examine:

• A primer on fraud and the role of RACs in the CMS effort to control this abuse
• Why “reasonable and necessary care” will be a central focus
• Strategies for nurses and therapists to strengthen reasonable and necessary care
• “Suspicious” practices involving ranges, physician authorization, occupational therapy services, and more

Presenter:Pam Warmack

Thursday, July 16, 2009
Session Times: 1–2 p.m. Central Daylight Time (CDT)
2–3 p.m. Eastern • 12–1 p.m. Mountain • 11–12 p.m. Pacific

Beacon Health is a Division of HCPro, Inc.

HCPro, Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation

This educational activity for 1.0 (per session) nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro, Inc.