tci Part B Insider - 2015 Issue 31

Physician Notes: Observation Care Will Require Notice to Patients

Plus: Hospital comes down on 14 staffers after HIPAA violation. Observation care can be confusing from a billing standpoint, but it is even more puzzling for patients who think they were “admitted to the hospital” as inpatients, when in actuality they were simply in the observation unit. That confusion will soon end, however, thanks to a new bill that President Obama signed into law on Aug. 7. The Notice of Observation, Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility Act (NOTICE Act) requires hospitals to inform Medicare beneficiaries in observation care that they are outpatients—and not inpatients—and whether...

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