13
Aug
by Heather Wilson stored in: RAC Assistance for Hospices and tagged: Educate
The very best, and maybe only, defense against Recovery Audit Contractor attacks against your payments is education. The P-E-M strategy for dealing with RACs focuses on education on two levels:
- Learn everything possible about what RACs do, who they are and what to expect from them; and
- Make absolutely certain that all of the hospice’s clinical staff knows how to assess patients for eligibility (for hospice care and for higher levels of care such as general inpatient and continuous care) and how to appropriately and thoroughly document that eligibility.
The articles in this newsletter’s Educate category of RAC Assistance for Hospice address these two areas: education about the RACs and about documentation.
