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CMS Requires Patient Reclassification Notices in February 2025

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What’s happening: Beginning Feb. 14, 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will require giving “Observation Change of Status Notices” to patients who are reclassified from inpatient to observation (outpatient) status.   What else to know: CMS has issued updated information on these new requirements for communication to affected patients. Hospitals will be required to...

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