HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2020 Issue 45 (November)

Healthcare News: OIG to audit for incorrectly billed short-stay inpatient admissions

November 23rd, 2020

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently announced it plans to audit hospital inpatient claims. According to the report, the OIG wants to determine if inpatient claims with short lengths of stay were incorrectly billed as inpatient when they should have been billed as outpatient or outpatient with observation.

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