LIVERMORE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Performant Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: PFMT), (“Performant”, “the Company”), a leading provider of technology-enabled payment integrity, eligibility and related analytics services, today announced that on March 26, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) awarded Performant an 8.5 year contract to serve as the Region 1 Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC). This contingency fee contract was awarded via a full-and-open competitive procurement. Region 1 c