A. L. Russell & Associates

Because A. L. Russell & Associates specializes in helping medical practices increase cash flow and profitability, we offer a baseline audit to prepare your practice for your upcoming CMS Recovery Audit Contractor audit.  In our baseline audit of your documentation and your billing and coding practices, we’ll identify areas in which you may need to make changes in advance of the official audit by a Recovery Audit Contractor.

Abbreviations.

• CMS = Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• MSP = Medicare Secondary Payer, the term used when Medicare is not responsible for paying first
• RAC = Recovery Audit Contractor

• Receive our report about a week after you provide us the source material
• Make corrections in billing and coding before the official RAC audit
• Make plans to reimburse amounts for which you were paid too much
• Collect amounts for which your were paid too little
• Save time and money by being prepared before the official RAC audit

Questions.  You probably have questions like these about our RAC baseline audit service:

• What is RAC?
• How does RAC affect me?
• What’s the benefit of having you do a baseline audit?
• Why would I want a third party to conduct a baseline audit?  Why not wait for the official RAC audit?
• How does your audit service work?
• If my practice has a high volume of claims, can you audit more than 50 files?
• What if my state is not scheduled to roll out until a later date?
• What’s the incentive for us to have this baseline audit done now instead of later in the year or next year?
• If your baseline audit of my records is clean, how often should the audit be redone?  That is, when the RAC comes to perform the audit, how recent does our baseline audit need to be?
• If I have a baseline audit certificate, will I still be subject to the RAC audit?
• Where can I find more information about the RAC audits?

Free Consultation.  You surely have more questions, so please call us to schedule a free consultation.  We’ll sit down with you and explain our RAC baseline audit and how it can make a difference in your practice and in your life!