{"id":1513,"date":"2015-12-28T20:41:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T01:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2015-12-28T20:41:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T01:41:41","slug":"medicare-advantage-plans-to-get-increased-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=1513","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Advantage Plans to get increased scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week announced\u00a0expansion of Medicare&#8217;s Recovery Audit Program, with increased focus on\u00a0risk adjustment data validation (RADV) as a means to verify general and condition-speficic Medicare Advantage billing. In article titled &#8220;CMS to launch RACs for Medicare Advantage,&#8221; Bob Herman of Modern Healthcare offers some insight into the issue. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernhealthcare.com\/article\/20151228\/NEWS\/151229937\" target=\"_blank\">Read the article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. \r\nAlso, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<div class=\"art-byline\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week announced\u00a0expansion of Medicare&#8217;s Recovery Audit Program, with increased focus on\u00a0risk adjustment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-medicare-advantage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}