CMS released eight frequently asked questions related to the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice March 8, the date by which all hospitals and critical access hospitals were required to begin delivering the new patient notice.
This week's note from the instructor discusses implementation of the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON) and the implementation deadline, which is just a week away.
If the attending physician writes an admission order and later decides that the case should have been outpatient and then writes and order for outpatient, do we still need utilization review involvement and condition code 44 to change to observation?
