Hospitals could soon be required to develop a discharge plan within 24 hours of admission or registration, according to a report published by CMS on Oct. 29.Read More »
For stays in which the physician expects the patient will need less than two midnights of hospital care, inpatient admission may be allowed on a case-by-case basis. Read More »
Recovery auditors collectively identified and corrected more than a million claims for improper payments, resulting in $2.57 billion dollars being corrected, according to CMS’ fiscal year (FY) 2014 report on the recovery audit contractor (RAC) program.Read More »
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about hospitals billing for Kwashiorkor, a form of severe protein malnutrition typically found in third-world countries that is extremely rare in the United States.Read More »
