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Take Note of NOTICE, the New Law for Observation Care
Published on Mon Oct 12, 2015
Notify the patients under observation for more than 24 hours, in 2016. If you thought the two midnight rule was the biggest regulatory hassle surrounding observation patients, guess again. A new law, the Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility (NOTICE) Act, was signed by President Obama on Aug. 6, 2015, with an effective date of August 2016. [...]