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Healthcare News: AHA advocates for streamlined audits, Recovery Auditor accountability

Hospitals are overturning Recovery Auditor denials nearly 75% of the time, according to recent RACTrac data. That’s why the American Hospital Association adamantly supports a new proposed bill—the Medicare Audit Improvement Act of 2012—aimed at holding Recovery Auditors accountable for inappropriate denials.

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