CMS revises POA instructions
HIM Connection, August 24, 2010
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On August 13 CMS issued Transmittal 756, Change Request 7024, to instruct providers on present-on-admission (POA) reporting. Effective with the implementation of 5010, inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) hospitals will no longer report the POA indicator of 1. ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes that are exempt from reporting POA should be left blank instead of being populated with a 1.
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