As hospitals deal with concerns related to the spread of COVID-19, CMS issued guidance on March 26 regarding the delivery of the Important Message from Medicare, Detailed Noticed of Discharge, Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice, and several other notices.
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CMS issues guidance for flexible delivery of beneficiary notices
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
As hospitals deal with concerns related to the spread of COVID-19, CMS issued guidance on March 26 regarding the delivery of the Important Message from Medicare, Detailed Noticed of Discharge, Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice, and several other notices.
Pence asks hospitals to share coronavirus surveillance data with feds
Source: HealthLeaders Media
The task force wants hospitals to report COVID-19 testing data and provide daily reports on bed capacity and supplies.
 

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Understanding Medicare requirements for observation
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Like other services covered by Medicare, observation must be reasonable and necessary or, in other words, medically necessary. The physician must document that they assessed patient risk to determine that the patient would benefit from observation services.
 

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Q&A: Provider specification on malnutrition queries
Source: ACDIS

Q: Our patients are meeting the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition criteria for a malnutrition diagnosis, and while the provider agrees when queried, they don't expand on the diagnosis in their documentation. Do you have advice for when these senarios are denied on the backend?

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