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MEDICARE AUDIT RESPONSE SUPPORT

Forty-five days, one indexed packet, one narrative that maps to the coverage criteria.

Medicare audit response support turns an additional documentation request into one indexed, paginated packet: signatures and orders located, the record ordered against the 45-day ADR clock, and a medical-necessity narrative written to the coverage determination being applied. Your compliance team and counsel decide what gets argued and filed.

Click any row → the source page it cites
ADR packet · Case #IME-4812 indexed
Adams, Timothy · ADR production
342 pp / 2 packets received logged
11 duplicate pages removed free
p.140 — wrong patient quarantined
Pages 342 Documents 27 Cited 100%

The manual is published. So is the ladder that grades you.

We do not build for a case type until we can name the standard that defines a correct output and the person who grades the file against it. In Medicare audit response, both are written down, chapter and section, and the overturn rate is the score at the end.

The rulebook and the referee
The rulebook
  • CMS Program Integrity Manual (Pub. 100-08) Ch. 3 and Ch. 8: the 45-day ADR clock, and signature requirements at PIM 3.3.2.4
  • Medicare Benefit Policy Manual, by benefit: Ch. 7 home health, Ch. 8 SNF, Ch. 9 hospice, Ch. 15 Part B
  • The applicable LCDs and NCDs for the service billed
  • Two-Midnight Rule, 42 CFR 412.3
  • 42 CFR Part 405 Subpart I, which frames the appeal itself
The referee
  • The contractor first, graded by the probe-round denial rate it returns
  • Then the five-level appeal ladder: MAC redetermination, QIC reconsideration, OMHA ALJ, Medicare Appeals Council, federal district court
  • The overturn rate is the grade
Healthcare defense counsel bills $350–750 an hour on audit response, or takes 20–30% contingency on the amount preserved Flat 10¢/page here, duplicates free
Packet build · Case #IME-4812 cited 100%
Production342 pp / 2 packets · 11 deduplicatedlogged
Signatures and ordersLocated, page-cited to the sourcecited
Handwritten ordersFaxed and re-scanned originalsdegraded
Coverage provisionNarrative mapped to the determination applieddrafted
27 documents · cited 100% · no coverage calls made here
What the file actually looks like

Thirty pages or six hundred, and the clock runs the same.

An ADR file runs 30 to 600 pages, with the middle of the range around 315. It rarely arrives as one clean production: an EHR export, a scanned chart from before the conversion, a fax of the signed order, and a billing extract that has to line up with all three.

What makes it hard is not the length. It is the handwritten order that never got transcribed, the same progress note appearing in three exports under three file names, and a page from another patient sitting in the middle of the set. Every one of those costs a denial if it reaches the contractor unchecked.

Volume

Roughly 1.5 to 3 million additional documentation requests go out a year across RAC, SMRC, UPIC, MAC TPE and CERT.

At stake

Medicare fee-for-service improper payments came to $28.8 billion in FY2025, and each one is documented, or not, in a file like this.

What we'd build with you

Four steps, starting with one real ADR file.

01

Send one real file

One ADR production as you already hold it, plus the request letter that names the claims. In the demo case that was 342 pages across 2 packets, with a wrong-patient page caught before the read started.

02

We return the read

The packet indexed and paginated, signatures and orders located, duplicates stripped, gaps named, and a medical-necessity narrative drafted against the provision the contractor cited. Every line points back to its source page.

03

We scope the build

Your benefit chapters, your LCD set, your exhibit order and Bates convention, wired into a repeatable packet template your revenue integrity team recognises.

04

You run it

Your compliance leads and counsel review, sign and submit. We never determine coverage, sign a response, or take the appeal. Those decisions stay where the accountability already sits.

Audit trail · Case #IME-4812 exportable
08:12Production received · 342 pp / 2 packetssystem
08:3111 pages deduplicatedsystem
08:44p.140 flagged — wrong patientsystem
08:54Packet indexed · 27 documents · cited 100%system
09:20Packet reviewed · signatures verifiedreviewer
09:26Packet exported · ADR response filed off-platformreviewer
Every access logged · file deleted 30 days after delivery
Why Medrecords AI

The rules the platform never breaks.

Medrecords AI EVERY LINE CITED
CASE #IME-4812 · ADAMS, T.342 pp
2/14 — ER visit, right knee p.4
4/18 — arthroscopic surgery p.61
p.140 — wrong patient quarantined
Medrecords AI
Read every page · cite every line

HIPAA, under a signed BAA

Every file is handled under our Business Associate Agreement, from the first byte.

Never trains a model

Your records are never used to train any AI model — ours or anyone else's.

Every line cited

If we can't cite it, we don't say it. Every sentence links to its source page.

Deleted after delivery

Files are deleted 30 days after delivery, with a full audit log of every access.

Powered by the platform

Four capabilities behind every audit response packet.

The ADR packet is one deliverable of the same platform that reads, sorts, stamps and cites the whole record.

Document Sorting & Packet Builder

Mixed productions sorted into the exhibit order the response needs, with duplicates stripped before anything is assembled.

IN ACTION · 342 pp / 2 packets → 27 documents, in order

Bates Numbering & Stamping

One continuous pagination across the whole production, so the narrative and the contractor point at the same page number.

IN ACTION · 342 pp stamped end to end, your convention

Missing Records Identification

The unsigned order, the absent plan of care, the certification nobody dated: named before the packet leaves your building, not after the denial.

IN ACTION · gaps listed against the request letter

Custom Report Builder

Your response template, your cover narrative, your exhibit index, produced the same way on every file your team touches.

IN ACTION · packet → submission-ready export
Also in the claims integrity lane: provider fraud record review and No Surprises Act IDR support.
FAQ

Medicare audit response, answered.

An indexed, paginated packet built from the records you send us: the encounters named in the request assembled in date order, signatures and orders located and page-cited, and a medical-necessity narrative drafted against the coverage determination the contractor is applying. The 45-day ADR clock in the CMS Program Integrity Manual is the deadline the whole build works backward from. Your compliance team and counsel decide what is submitted.

No. We locate and cite what the record documents against the LCD, NCD or manual provision being applied, and we surface where the documentation is thin, unsigned or absent. Whether the service meets coverage criteria, and how to argue it, is a determination your clinical reviewers, compliance leaders and counsel make. The platform never scores a claim or predicts an audit outcome.

All of them. TPE probe rounds, UPIC and SMRC requests, RAC complex reviews and CERT samples arrive as an additional documentation request with the same underlying task: assembling a specific, paginated, signed record set under a deadline. What changes is the rulebook, since the Medicare Benefit Policy Manual applies Ch. 7 to home health, Ch. 8 to SNF, Ch. 9 to hospice and Ch. 15 to Part B, so the narrative is written to the provision that actually governs the claim.

We draft, you decide. A redetermination narrative, a reconsideration packet, or the record exhibit set behind an ALJ hearing position paper comes back organized, Bates-stamped and cited to the source page. Nobody at Medrecords AI signs it, files it or appears at a hearing. The five-level ladder from MAC redetermination through QIC reconsideration, OMHA, the Medicare Appeals Council and federal district court belongs to your counsel.

No. Medrecords AI does not retrieve records from providers or facilities. You bring the records you already hold, and the review starts in minutes from upload. That matters most on a 45-day clock, where every day spent chasing a production is a day not spent building the packet.

Send one ADR file. We'll tell you what we can read.

No obligation. If the case type is buildable we'll scope it; if it isn't, we'll say so.