Corporate Compliance

Note: More on condition code 44 and observation

Medicare Weekly Update, June 23, 2009

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This is an especially light week of publications from CMS, so I thought I would update you a bit on an issue that we have included in recent postings, which has resulted in a number of questions from readers.  In two recent articles related to use of condition code 44, we indicated that, based on the written manuals, it appeared inappropriate to report the hours from the beginning of the stay as observation when converting the stay to outpatient.

Go to the MedicareMentor blog to read the rest of this week's note.



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