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Get ready for the NOTICE Act

A new notification requirement is coming next summer. Under the law, the Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility (NOTICE) Act, which was signed by President Barack Obama on August 6, any patient in observation who has been in the hospital for more than 24 hours must be clearly told?verbally and in writing?of his or her outpatient status. Hospital officials have to deliver this notification no more than 36 hours after the patient's outpatient treatments begin.

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