Do You These Various Acts and Programs Under Consumer Act Flashcards

Do you know these various acts and programs under the consumer act? The consumer's act designed to ensure the safety of the final consumer when it comes to business competitions and standards of goods they get. By reading through these flashcards, you will be conversant with the acts under the main act. All the best in your studies, and keep practicing!

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Program Safeguard Contracts - abbrev
PSCs
PSCs
CMS trasferred responsiblity for fraud and abuse detection from fiscal intermediaries (FIs) and carriers to Program Safeguard Contracts. in 2009 replaced by the Zone Program Integrity Contractor (ZPIC)
Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 - abbrev
IPIA
IPIA
Established PERM, CERT, and HPMP
Payment Error Rate Measurement program - abbrev
PERM
PERM
Measures improper payments in the Medicaid program and SCHIP
Comprehensive Error Rate Testing program - abbrev
CERT
CERT
Assesses and measures improper Medicare fee-for-service payments
Hospital Payment Monitoring Program - abbrev
HPMP
HPMP
Measures, monitors, and reduces the incidence of Medicare fee-for service payment errors for short-term, acute care, inpatient PPS hopsitals; included dev of FATHOM and PEPPER
First-look Analysis for Hospital Outlier Monitoring - abbrev
FATHOM
FATHOM
Data analysis tool, which provides administrative hospital and state-specific data for specific CMS target areas
Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report - abbrev
PEPPER
PEPPER
Contains hospital-specific administrative claims data for a number of CMS-identified problem areas; a hospital uses PEPPER data to compare their performance with that of other hospitals
Recovery audit contractor program - abbrev
RAC