CMS Medicare Auditors Collect $2.3 Billion in Overpayments

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) report that healthcare recovery auditors (RACs) collected $2.3 billion in overpayments from providers in fiscal year 2012. The recovery of overpayments sets a new record that is almost three times more than the $800 million in overpayments recovered in the prior year. RACs also identified almost $100 million in underpayments.