RACs Focusing on Back, Chest Pain

A Healthcare Financial Management Association presentation suggested that recovery audit contractors are focusing on hospital services for back and chest pain, according to a Fi-Med blog.

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RACs are focusing on these services because it is difficult to prove their medical necessity, according to the blog. Services that are not deemed medically necessary may get rejected.

Read the Fi-Med blog on recovery audit contractors.

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