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Pain Management Coding Alert

Reader Question:
Keep Track of Your Local RAC

Published on Fri Dec 08, 2017

Question: I've been doing some reading about recovery audit contractors (RACs), and frankly it scared me. With all of the compliance hurdles for correct Medicare [...]

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