Most inpatient rehabilitation facility stays might not meet Medicare coverage or documentation requirements and compliance could be improved through a preauthorization process, according to a recent Office of Inspector General report.
Q: If a long-term acute hospital or a skilled-nursing facility isn’t necessary for a patient, but staying at home isn’t a plausible or healthy situation, where are some other options for patients to go after a hospital discharge?
A recent study in the Annals of Family Medicine examined the challenges of implementing electronic health (EHR) tools for collecting, reviewing, and acting on social determinants of health data in community health centers.
In the 2019 OPPS final rule, released Friday, November 2, CMS implemented several site-neutral payment policies, though the agency did delay or shelve other proposals due to stakeholder feedback.
