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Critical Path Network: News Brief: Report outlines planning by hospitals for bioterror
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Critical Path Network: News Brief: AHA pushes for change in EMTALA regulations
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Bioterrorism Watch: Traumatized health care providers may need stress counseling in horrific aftermath of bioterror attack
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Critical Path Network: ACE unit seeks to reduce elderly functional decline
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Critical Path Network: News Brief: ‘Improper payments’ declined, OIG says
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Critical Path Network: News Brief: Patient satisfaction rates dropped in Sept. 11 week
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Bioterrorism Watch: Dire straits: Plague released at concert
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Bioterrorism Watch: Winds of war: Researchers track airborne anthrax
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Don’t ignore the two-midnight rule. It’s still in effect
A bill signed into law on April 1 directs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to postpone post-payment audits of the two-midnight rule until after March 31, 2015. In the meantime, CMS has implemented pre-payment probe and educate reviews to determine if hospitals are in compliance. -
‘Probe and Educate’ MAC reviews in effect
When the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) conduct probe and educate prepayment audits of compliance with the two-midnight rule, inadequate documentation and lack of one or more of the components of certification are major reasons for the denials, according to Ralph Wuebker, MD, MBA, chief medical officer for Executive Health Resources, a Newtown Square, PA, healthcare consulting firm.