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Andrew B. Wachler Educates Long-Term Care Industry on 'MICs, MACs and RACs' at AHCA/NCAL Annual Convention
Andrew B. Wachler, along with Mark Reagan, presented "MICs, MACs and RACs: Emerging Issues and Appeal Strategies" at the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living.
ROYAL OAK, MI, October 06, 2011 /Government PR News/ -- Andrew B. Wachler, along with Mark Reagan, an attorney with Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, San Francisco, presented "MICs, MACs and RACs: Emerging Issues and Appeal Strategies" at the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living Annual Convention & Expo, Sept. 18-21 in Las Vegas. The presentation also covered Zone Program Integrity Contractors (ZPICs). Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) are government contractors paid on a contingency basis to recover Medicare overpayments to health care providers and to identify underpayments. Medicaid Integrity Program contractors perform a similar role in relation to the Medicaid program. Medicare Administrative Contractors process Medicare claims. ZPICs are fraud investigators who also conduct post-payment audits for Medicare.
The AHCA is a non-profit federation of affiliated state health organizations, together representing more than 11,000 non-profit and for-profit nursing facility, assisted living, developmentally-disabled, and sub-acute care providers that care for approximately one million elderly and disabled individuals each day. The National Center for Assisted Living is the assisted living voice of the AHCA.
Wachler has been practicing health care law for over 25 years. He counsels health care providers and organizations nationwide in a variety of health care legal matters. In addition, he writes and speaks nationally to professional organizations and other entities on health care law topics such as Medicare appeals, Stark and fraud and abuse, HIPAA, and other topics.
Royal Oak, Mich.-based Wachler & Associates, PC has served the legal needs of health care providers nationwide for more than 25 years. The firm specializes in all aspects of health care law, including RAC and other third-party payor audits, health care business transactions and contracting, Stark self-referral law, fraud and abuse analysis, regulatory compliance, billing and reimbursement issues, provider participation and deselection matters, licensure and staff privilege matters, defense of civil and criminal health care fraud issues and Certificates of Need. For more information, please visit www.wachler.com; www.racattorneys.com or call (248) 544-0888.
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