Inpatient Facility Coding & Compliance Alert

Admissions Coding:

Be Sure You're Up to Speed on the New 'Over Two Midnights' Rule

Warning: CMS has a different perspective on ‘inpatient’ or ‘observation’ than you’ve been using. The final update to the 2014 IPPS (Inpatient Prospective Payment System) contained a surprise for hospitals: new rules for determining whether a patient should be admitted as an inpatient versus admitted to observation. These new rules were implemented along with the IPPS update on October 1, [...]
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