The Two-Midnight Rule 2021 - Five Immediate Actions for Hospitals and Compliance Officers
By EsqSocial Corporation 08/06/21
[co-author: Matthew Schwartz] In November of 2020, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced it was resuming audits of inpatient (IP) claims with short lengths of stay and added the audits to its annual work plan for 2021. In addition, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a three-year phase-out of the Inpatient Only List (“CMS IPOL”) beginning in 2021. With these two factors in mind, hospitals and compliance officers must place a renewed focus on the...
By: FTI Consulting