Industry Note:
Beware Hospital Therapy Billing Change
Published on Fri Oct 11, 2013
Watch out for changes to the therapy reimbursement requests you get from hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized the so-called "2 midnights rule" that encourages hospitals to have appropriate-length observation stays and inpatient stays. By focusing medical review on long observation stays and short inpatient stays, CMS may change hospitals’ therapy billing patterns, suggests the National [...]