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HAVE A HAND IN THE SOLUTION We need all IRFs to lend a hand in challenging aggressive Medicare auditors. MISSION The FAIR Fund or the Fund for Access to Inpatient Rehabilitation is a common legal defense fund comprised primarily of leaders of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and units who have organized to bring legal challenges to overly restrictive interpretations of medical necessity burdensome documentation and violations of procedural requirements by Medicare contractors. The FAIR Funds mission is to raise awareness of and build support for policies that will preserve and increase access to inpatient hospital rehabilitation. Members and supporters of the FAIR Fund believe that exercising the legal rights of providers is vital and providers must challenge the restrictions in access to inpatient hospital rehabilitation that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS and its contractors have systematically pursued in the recent past.