Inpatient Facility Coding & Compliance Alert

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Get Ready for Patient Centered Discharge Planning in 2016

You will need to conform to CMS standards, and share quality data. Give way, for your patients will steer their own discharge plans in the times to come. CMS has proposed to revise the discharge planning requirements that hospitals, including long-term care hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities, critical access hospitals, and home health agencies, in a press release dated Oct. [...]
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