Audits:
Watch The Clock For Medicare Facility Observation Patients
Published on Fri Jun 13, 2014
Don’t include time a patient spends waiting for transportation after discharge. After the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) implemented the controversial “Two-Midnight Rule,” the RACs have intensified scrutiny of hospital admissions. They will assume hospital admissions are reasonable and necessary for patients who stay in a hospital through two midnights. However, shorter stays are expected to be coded [...]