According to AHA News Now, the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) for Region D has begun medical necessity reviews of 10 types of inpatient hospital conditions, which are listed in the ''Description'' column on its website. The Region D states are: Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, ...

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has just released the results from its 2010 first quarter RACTrac survey, a free, web-based survey designed in response to a lack of data and information provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the impact of the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program on America's ...

They say everything's bigger in Texas, and that even goes for their welcomes. Following yesterday's pre-conference events, attendees at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Convention and Exhibit were treated to a Welcome Reception at the Glass Cactus, a nightclub at the Gaylord Texan Resort. Set on the shores of ...

Anytime someone mentions this year's American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Convention and Exhibit, I immediately think of the song, ''I Heard it Through the Grapevine,'' because, well, the event's being held in Grapevine, TX. Problem is, I only know that single line of lyrics, and as a child of the late ‘80s, I more often ...

It's the second day at the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) conference in Las Vegas, and the attendees are currently chowing down on breakfast. Yesterday's welcome session was high energy and humorous. AAPC directors took on roles in a skit and ran through a look at coding past, present and future, with music of the times ...