The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has granted a stay of new Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) contracts until the appeals process has been exhausted in the lawsuit filed in May by CGI Federal against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). With this stay, it is anticipated that new contracts will not be awarded until late 2015, and won’t begin until 2016, at the earliest.
