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Tips for delivering discharge notices to inpatients

When patients are set to be discharged from the hospital, they have the right to appeal that discharge decision. Hospitals have a duty to inform patients that they have this right by providing them with a required notification mandated by CMS called the Important ­Message from Medicare (IM).

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