DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2011 Issue 3 (March)

Ask a Part B News Expert: Documenting a patient's switch from observation to inpatient

What are the documentation guidelines for when a physician admits a patient to observation status and then the next day the same patient is admitted and seen as an inpatient?  Would the physician have to dictate a separate report for the physician’s chart (in office) for this or can the physician just note this on the progress note at the hospital?

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