The Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006
made the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program, which identifies
improper Medicare payments, permanent. RACs are paid on a contingency fee basis
and the auditors receive a percentage of the improper overpayments and
underpayments they collect from providers. Auditors use software programs to
identify payment errors such as duplicate payments, fiscal intermediaries’
mistakes, medical necessity and coding.
LINTECH designed COMET™ to
prevent and eradicate errors – all by having every possible data element from
our EMR flow into our MDS Application. The errors that cause
incorrect Medicare payments cannot happen with COMET™,
because data entered into our applications flows automatically into the right
fields, including the applicable fields in our Billing Application. Because there is no human
intervention in the process, COMET™ users
do not have to worry about failing RAC audits.
To learn more about our COMET™ system, click
here.