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Review of Medicare hospital notice requirements

No later than Wednesday of this week—March 8, 2017—hospitals (including critical access hospitals [CAH]) are required to meet the newest of Medicare’s numerous hospital notification requirements. Under the Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility (NOTICE) Act, hospitals must provide both written and oral notice regarding the outpatient nature of observation and the resulting implications to all Medicare beneficiaries who receive observation services for more than 24 hours. This notice must be provided in a prescribed form  (the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice [MOON]) within 36 hours of when observation care began and must meet certain additional requirements with respect to delivery, documentation, etc.

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