{"id":453,"date":"2015-08-12T00:29:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T04:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=453"},"modified":"2015-08-11T19:29:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T23:29:41","slug":"hospitals-required-to-notify-medicare-beneficiaries-of-observation-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"Hospitals Required to Notify Medicare Beneficiaries of Observation Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Jane McCahill,\u00a0www.jdsupra.com)<\/p>\n<p>The NOTICE Act (Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility) has been signed into law as of August 6, 2015. The Act requires hospitals to provide oral and written notice to patients within 36 hours of being placed in observation care (or, upon discharge, if sooner). The notice must explain to patients, in plain language, that they have not been admitted as an inpatient, the reasons, and the financial implications. <span id=\"more-2962\">The implications include: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/hospitals-required-to-notify-medicare-89591\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; socialsecurityreport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211;\u00a0Jane McCahill,\u00a0www.jdsupra.com) The NOTICE Act (Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility) has been signed into law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}