Getting paid: To avoid RAC audits, admitting, discharging docs must be same group, specialty
If your practice’s procedure is for physicians of different specialties to routinely admit and discharge the same patient from a hospital, revise that arrangement. Medicare policy specifically prohibits it and recovery auditors (RACs) are sending recoupment letters to practices that do it.
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