Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Industry Note:

Know the Details on the Discharge Planning Final Rule

Medicare released another policy that interweaves interoperability with patient-centered initiatives — and this time it focuses on hospital discharges. Context: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule, published in the Federal Register on Sept. 30, that  “revises hospital discharge planning requirements for long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) and inpatient rehabilitation facilities, inpatient psychiatric facilities, children’s hospitals, [...]
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