FYI ~ Below are exerpts from CMS Change Request #5549 I believe this is the information you are looking for....
"Effective October 1, 2007, Medicare will begin to accept a Present On Admission (POA) Indicator for every diagnosis on your inpatient acute care hospital claims. However, providers must submit the POA on hospital claims beginning with discharges on or after January 1, 2008." Beginning for discharges on or after October 1, 2007, hospitals should begin reporting the POA codes for acute care inpatient PPS discharges. There is one exception, i.e., claims submitted via direct data entry (DDE) should not report the POA codes until January 1, 2008, as the DDE screens will not be able to accommodate the codes until that date. Hope this helps !! ----- Original Message ----- From: Gary Ring To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 11:05 AM Subject: [MEDITECH-L] POA Indicators I, several of my clients, and Meditech are debating the required Implementation Date for including POA (Present On Admission) Indicators on claims. According to the CMS regs (Change Request CR-5499), POA Indicators are required on ALL claims effective 10/1/07. However, while the reg is clear on the timeline for including these indicators on the UB04, the reg is not entirely clear (or at least may contradict) when they need to be included on the 837 4010A1 electronic claim. It is our intepretation that they are also required on electronic claims effective 10/1/07, but Meditech is stating that they are not required until 1/1/08, and therefore will not ensure that the programming is for 10/1/07. If anyone else has reviewed this regulation, and can give us an opinion on your interpretation of the implementation date/timeline for UB04 and 837 electronic claims, we would appreciate it. Thanks. Gary J. Ring Strategic Resource Group, Inc. 11 Jones Road, Peabody, MA 01960 978-807-1573 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= To subscribe or unsubscribe to the meditech-l, visit http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l_mtusers.com To check the status of the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.NET For help, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit and add information to the MTUsers WikiPedia at MTUsers.NET/mwiki ______________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l_mtusers.com ***** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ***** This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system.
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