Report to Congress finds $474M in improper payments from fee-for-service Medicare A tweak to the federal government’s methods of auditing healthcare payment programs has scaled back the number of discovered improper payments. That’s according to the latest report to Congress on 2016 work done by Recovery Audit Contractors in fee-for-service Medicare. The RAC program was put in place to review provider payments, after they’ve been issued, to root out improper payments. The report noted that in fiscal 2016, RACs found improper payments […]