Industry Notes:
Review Your Discharge Ins and Outs
Published on Thu Jan 22, 2015
Brush up on your discharge responsibilities with a new booklet from CMS. For example: “A physician’s order is not required to discharge the patient unless you have such a policy or it is required by State law,” CMS says in its home health agency discharge information. But “you should document in the patient’s clinical record that the physician was notified [...]