The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is launching a new instrument for 2013 called the Medicare Administrative Contractor Satisfaction Indicator (MSI). The MSI is a tool that measures your satisfaction with the Medicare claims administrative contractor(s) that serve you. This measuring tool will provide the best opportunity for you to rate your satisfaction with your MAC. Your input will help your MAC to improve the services that they offer you.

ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 11, 2012—Register to attend the RACmonitor UPFRONT Live Symposium on the RACs, MACs, MICs and ZPICs in Chicago on Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012 when Brian D. Annulis, JDP, partner in the law firm of Meade & Roach, LLP, provides attendees with important insights into the OIG audit priorities that providers and suppliers should incorporate into their 2013 audit and compliance programs.

Republican leaders from the House Energy and Commerce Committee have written a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services asking for information on oversight of two Medicare fraud contractor programs.

The congressional members want information from 2007 until present on the Zone Program Integrity Contractor (ZPIC) program and the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) program.