The new Notification of Hospital Discharge Appeal Rights

[dmoore]

I just listened in on the CMS program on the notification of Hospital Discharge Appeal Rights. I have a couple of questions.
1. Will IPRO be sending any guidelines regarding this change to hospitals?
2. Am I correct from what is said that hospitals no longer issue continued stay denial letters?
3. We currently issue a skilled letter when a patient is no longer acute but waiting for an SNF bed. Do we still issue those letters?
Thanks for any help with clarifying these issues.
Diana :confused:

[Alice Vallar]

Suggest you visit the CMS Beneficiary Notice Initiative website below:


http://www.cms.hhs.gov/BNI/12_HospitalDischargeAppealNotices.asp#TopOfPage

There are many "downloads" posted at the "Hospital Discharge Appeal" site, including Q's & A's about the new D/C appeal process, the new notices and the revised Medicare Claims Processing Manual, Chapter 30.

[Martina Dolan]

Notification of Hospital Discharge Appeal Rights (CMS-4105-F) frequently asked questions are available at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/BNI/Downloads/WeichardtFrequentlyAskedQuestionsJuly2007.pdf