tci E/M Coding Alert - 2015 Issue 12

Hospital Policy: Ensure You're Ready For New NOTICE Requirements

Good news: You may already be doing what you need to do. As you learned in “Look Beyond Code Changes to Billing and Policy Updates” in E/M Coding Alert Vol. 3, No. 10, the Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication forCareEligibility (NOTICE) Act that President Obama signed on Aug. 6, 2015, with an effective date of August 2016, directs that you’ll need to inform the patient about “observation” status, and explain they are outpatient, despite being in hospital within a stipulated period. “This new requirement is something that hospitals should really be performing anyway,&rdquo...

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