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Patient status can impact payment for transitional care
Understanding health care today is not easy. Trying to understand the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ patient status regulations is even more confusing. The term patient status indicates whether you are an inpatient or an outpatient. CMS provide a range of guidelines to physicians identifying when a patient should be given an inpatient status versus outpatient (observation) status. Patients think being placed in a hospital bed and spending the night indicates admission and thus inpatient status. This is not true. It is not uncommon to stay overnight in the hospital, yet be in an outpatient observation status...Read More
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