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CMS clarifies transfer component of new discharge rule

Case Management Weekly, June 6, 2007

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Under Medicare's new discharge notification rule, hospitals need not provide a follow-up notice if a patient is being transferred to another inpatient setting, and the transfer hospital is required to provide a patient with an initial notice only if that hospital is not part of the same facility as the first hospital, CMS told a May 29 Open Door Forum, the Bureau of National Affairs reports.

CMS organized the forum to discuss the patient discharge rule-specifically clarifying the rule's applicability to inpatient-to-inpatient transfers.

The final patient discharge rule requires hospitals to provide the revised Important Message from Medicare notice informing patients of their discharge rights within two days of admission and a follow-up copy no more than two days before discharge.

Documents discussed during the Special Open Door Forum are available on CMS's Web site at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/BNI/12_HospitalDischargeAppealNotices.asp#TopOfPage

Source: Bureau of National Affairs; CMS

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