Medicaid RAC Deadline Delayed

BALTIMORE — CMS will delay its April 1 deadline for states
to implement their Medicaid Recovery Audit Contractor programs
until sometime later in 2011.

“Out of consideration for state operational issues and to ensure
states comply with the provisions of the final rule, we have
determined that states will not be required to implement their RAC
programs by the proposed implementation date,” the agency said in a
bulletin.

Instead, an implementation date will be included when a final
rule for the Medicaid RAC program is issued. States were required
to set up RAC programs to audit payments to Medicaid providers
under the Affordable Care Act.