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All claims involving inpatient admissions to general acute are hospitals or other facilities that are subject to a law or regulation mandating collection of present on admission information. Present on admission is defined as present at the time the order for inpatient admission occurs conditions that develop during an outpatient encounter, including emergency department, observation, or outpatient surgery, are considered as present on admission. POA indicator is assigned to principal and secondary diagnoses and the external cause of injury codes.

Issues related to inconsistent, missing, conflicting or unclear documentation must still be resolved by the provider. If a condition would not be coded and reported based on Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set definitions and current official coding guidelines, then the POA indicator would not be reported. CMS does not require a POA indicator for the external cause of injury code unless it is being reported as an “other diagnosis”. Is your Present on Admission indicator not yet collected, you should be? If your providers don’t understand POA documentation and what’s necessary for correct assignment of POA, your facility’s reimbursement could take a huge hit.

It is the hospital administration responsibility, not only to keep staff and other infections to a minimum, but also critical that if a patient presents with an infection upon admission to make sure Medicare know about it.

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