Home Health & Hospice Week
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Use This List To Beat M0175 Blues
Published on Fri Dec 17, 2004
Do you know how long your most common patients should have stayed in the hospital? If not, you could be courting costly M0175 mistakes (see story, "OASIS", this issue).
Check your patients' stays against these figures to see if there's a hidden SNF or rehab stay - and an extra $200 to $600 per patient - waiting to be discovered.
Web links in chart: (). LOS - Fiscal year 2005 inpatient prospective payment system rule ().
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