OIG Focus on One-Day Inpatients and Combined Admissions
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OIG Focus on One-Day Inpatients and Combined Admissions
Hospitals should ensure that their policies and procedures address two areas of inpatient billing targeted by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General ("OIG"): (1) inpatients with one-day lengths of stay; and (2) inpatients who are readmitted shortly after having been discharged from a prior inpatient stay (often referred to as the "combined admissions" issue). These two topics have been included in the OIG's work plan since 2000, and they are coming under increasing scrutiny.
One-Day Length of StaysAlthough not formally designa...See the full content of this document
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