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Q: When a patient stays 24 hours or less at the hospital do we have to discharge and readmit?
Q: When a patient stays 24 hours or less at the hospital do we have to discharge and readmit? A: There is no federal regulation that requires a patient to be discharged and readmitted if the patient is admitted to the hospital regardless of length. Agency policy might set specific criteria. If a patient is [...]
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Confusion Prevails Over M0102 and M0104
Wed, Mar 2, 2011
Over the last few weeks, many providers have expressed confusion over data elements M0102 and M0104 on the OASIS-C assessment. Let’s clarify each of these data elements. The first data element, M0102, reads “Date of Physician-Ordered Start of Care (Resumption of Care): If the physician indicated a specific start of care (resumption of care) date [...]
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Compliance Conundrum?
Thu, Dec 23, 2010
Beacon Health needs your help! Please let us know if you would be interested in speaking with us about this great opportunity. Do you have a compliance issue at your agency that needs to be solved? Let us help you solve it. Beacon Health’s newsletter, Homecare Administrator, is looking for someone with a troubling compliance [...]
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Authors, Contributors Needed!
Fri, Dec 17, 2010
Beacon Health needs your help! Please let us know if you would be interested in speaking with us about these great opportunities. We are looking for an author to write our 2011 book on Reducing Rehospitalizations in Home Care. This book will assist home care leaders and staff in assessing and treating patients to reduce [...]
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Inpatient or Outpatient? The Difference Is Huge
Fri, Aug 27, 2010
A topic for discussion at Beacon Health’s Mastering Medicare seminars this year was inpatient observation stays. CMS Publication 100-02, Chapter 6, §20.6, defines an observation stay as “a well-defined set of specific, clinically appropriate services, which include ongoing short term treatment, assessment, and reassessment, that are furnished while a decision is being made regarding whether [...]
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If you are doing a ROC assessment in the middle of the episode, should you answer M0110 “NA”- No Medicare case mix group to be defined by this assessment?
Tue, Aug 24, 2010
Q: If you are doing a ROC assessment in the middle of the episode, should you answer M0110 “NA”- No Medicare case mix group to be defined by this assessment? I believe this is the correct answer since there are no SCIC adjustments, but have not been able to get a clear answer. We do [...]
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