AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2007 Issue 3

Notice

The Present on Admission (POA) Indicator is a data element used to provide information on whether a diagnosis was present at the time of a patient’s admission. Effective October 1, 2007, Medicare will begin to accept a Present on Admission (POA) Indicator for every diagnosis on inpatient acute care hospital claims; however, providers must submit the POA on hospital claims beginning with discharges on or after January 1, 2008. Claims for discharges after April 1, 2008, without POA reporting will be returned to the provider. Critical access hospitals, Maryland waiver hospitals, long-term care hospitals, cancer hospitals...

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