Nursing Home/Assisted Living/Health Care Fraud Bulletin
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arra logo Bingham McHale Gears Up For RAC Audits
For more than 20 years, lawyers at Bingham McHale have represented long-term care clients in criminal, civil, regulatory and administrative matters throughout the country. As Special Counsel to the Indiana Health Care Association, we have provided emergency hot-line legal advice 24/7 to providers who are confronted with Attorney General neglect and abuse investigations.
 
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Indiana flag RAC: Calm Before the Storm?
Medicare providers are now experiencing the “calm before the storm” as they await the start of CMS’ latest effort to root out fraud and abuse in Medicare - the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program - which is slated to start nationwide by Jan. 1, 2010. (See below how one health care provider - Golden Living, of Fort Smith, AR - is preparing for the RAC “storm.”)
 
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Indiana flag RAC Audits: Tips from a Provider
Long-term care providers who maintain good clinical records will be the ones most likely to succeed under the federal government’s effort to combat fraud and abuse in the Medicare program - called the Recovery Audit Contract (RAC) program - according to Golden Living’s senior vice-president and chief legal officer David Beck.
 
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September 2009

Long-Term Care Team

J. Richard Kiefer, J.D.
James J. Bell, J.D.
Melissa J. Wray, R.N., J.D.
Arthur L. Logsdon, J.D.

Practice Areas

Abuse and Neglect
Health Care Fraud
Criminal Trials
Civil Litigation
Appeals
Licensure
RAC Audits
Attorney General
    Investigations
White Collar Crime
Long-Term Care Team
Melissa Wray      J. Richard Kiefer       James Bell

Nursing Home/Assisted Living/Health Care Fraud Bulletin is published by Bingham McHale LLP © 2009. All rights reserved.

Bingham McHale LLP publications, including newsletters, are intended to inform our clients and readers of current legal developments of general interest. They are not intended to serve as legal advice. Readers should not act upon the information contained in these publications without professional counsel. Please contact Dick Kiefer at (317) 635-8900 with any questions you may have about Nursing Home/Assisted Living/Health Care Fraud issues or our publications.

Melissa Wray J. Richard Kiefer James Bell