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2-Midnight Rule:

How Should You Count 2-Midnight Claims? CMS Shares the Scoop

Published on Wed Mar 12, 2014

Counting time and medical necessity still lead the list of must-haves. Implementation of the 2-Midnight Rule for facilities can be a challenge, which means you don’t want to miss any updates available from CMS – especially when they outline how to count the time associated with the patient admission. That’s one important detail CMS officials covered in the recent National [...]
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