BC Advantage - 2006 Issue 9

Latest on Medicare Payments, Policies and Practices

New Hospital-Issued Notice of Noncoverage: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has introduced model language for a new Hospital Issued Notice of Noncoverage  (HINN). HINN 11, as the new notice is called, may be used as a liability notice for fee-for-service inpatient hospital beneficiaries who are due to receive specific diagnostic or therapeutic procedures that are separate from treatment covered/paid/bundled into the inpatient stay.While there are several different versions of the HINN, none of the current versions adequately addresses the ability of hospitals to charge their inpatients for certain noncovered services "severable" from the inpatient stay...

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