tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 32

Hospitals: Hospitals Must Keep Track Of Transfers

Losing track of inpatients could cost hospitals bundles of reimbursement.Do hospitals know where their patients are? They'd better, or they risk losing out on Medicaid dollars to which they're entitled. Hospitals need to pay close attention to coding problems that could be sending the wrong message to Medicaid about their inpatient transfers and discharges. As the HHS Office of Inspector General continues pursuing discharge/transfer miscoding in hospitals nationwide, the Tarheel State is the latest to get burned with a financial adjustment. The North Carolina audit, titled "Audit of Hospital Patient Transfers Paid as Discharges and Claimed...

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