This week's note discusses the recent HCCA-OIG Compliance Effectiveness Roundtable as well as the resulting new compliance resource guide for providers.
This week's note from the instructor discusses several changes regarding inpatient-only procedures that might have flown under the radar for some hospitals.
This week's note from the instructor concludes our discussion on multiple notices that hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAH) are required to provide to outpatients and inpatients in particular situations. The focus this week will be on streamlining hospital notification processes to avoid the necessity of recreating the wheel each time a new notice requirement is implemented.
This week's note from the instructor continues last week's discussion regarding the multiple notices that hospitals and critical access hospitals are required to provide to outpatients and inpatients in particular situations.
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.
