Industry Note:
Boost Your Charting For Observation & Assessment
Published on Fri Aug 30, 2013
Your documentation specifics will be the key to proving that a post-hospital-discharge patient requires observation and assessment for the three weeks following discharge, even if complications never materialize. So says HHH Medicare Admini-strative Contractor NHIC in a recently posted question-and-answer set. The Medicare Benefit Policy Manual says, "Where a patient was admitted to home health care for skilled observation because [...]