| Subject: | CMS Releases Updates for Hospital Discharge Appeal Rights Final Rule, Effective July 1, 2007 |
| Category: | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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| Published: | Fri, 25 May 2007 - 12:00 pm |
| On November 27, 2006, CMS published a final rule, CMS-4105-F: Notification of Hospital Discharge Appeal Rights, which was reviewed in a StayAlert Notice on November 29, 2006. In summary, the final rule required that, beginning July 1, 2007, hospitals must deliver a revised version of the Important Message from Medicare to inform Medicare beneficiaries, who are hospital inpatients, about their hospital discharge appeal rights. Notice is required both for original Medicare... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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