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OIG Returns To Obsession With Hospital Early Discharge To HH Penalty
Published on Fri Jul 08, 2022
The HHS Office of Inspector General wants to make sure no full payments for hospital patients discharged “early” to home are sneaking through. And the result may chill hospital referrals for certain patients. Reminder: “Medicare makes the full Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Group (MS-DRG) payment to a hospital that discharges an inpatient beneficiary ‘to home,’” the OIG says in a new [...]