October 26, 2017
Hospital Admissions Part II: The Finances of Combining Admissions and the Readmission Penalty
Should hospitals combine two admissions into one? In the absence of CMS guidance, hospitals are urged to do the right thing. Last week I wrote a confessional for RACmonitor eNews, Hospital Admissions: Combining Two into One Doesn’t Add Up, about how I had been advising hospitals incorrectly on billing a…
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