On maintaining physical health, Benjamin Franklin famously said, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” The phrase could just as accurately be applied to maintaining financial health when ...

$700 Million in Improper Medicare Payments Saved by CMS Recovery Audit Contractor Program CMS has released a report offering fresh evidence that the recovery audit contractors (RACs) pilot program is ...

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 created the Recovery Audit Contractor Program to reduce improper Medicare payments, and since its inception, the program has ...

SUMMARY: This notice presents an approach and requests comments on the provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. 111-148), as amended by the Health Care and Education ...

The primary goal for CMS must be to ensure that corrective actions are in place so that improper payments can be reduced, says GAO. What are the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) doing to ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is publishing a proposed rule to help states hire auditors in the Medicaid program. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is about to publish a ...