I would like to know what other hospitals are doing when a Medicare
patient is re-admitted within 72 hours of discharge with the same
admitting diagnosis.
1. Are you keeping the 2 admissions with 2 separate account numbers
and just billing them as 1 admission.?
2. Do you undo the first discharge when you get the 72 hour warning
and use the first account # for the re-admisssion
hospital stay?
3. If the patient is admitted with a new account # and 3 days
later you are told the account has to be merged, are you
merging the clinical documentation?
4. Is there another way to handle this situation?
Thanks,
Diana L Teeters, RNC
Nursing Clinical Coordinator
Alliance Community Hospital
200 East State Street
Alliance, OH 44601
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