Prepare for the 2010 Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program rollout with these facts and figures provided by CMS and William Malm, ND, RN, practice director for revenue cycle management at HCPro, Inc., in Marblehead, MA:

Getting started. The original RAC demonstration project, which ran from March 2005–March 2008, had two objectives: to detect and correct improper payments.