CMS Releases Hospital Acquired Condition and Present on Admission Information

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently posted 2 new fact sheets on the CMS website.  The facts sheets are The Hospital-Acquired Conditions (HAC) in Acute Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Hospitals Fact Sheet and The Present On Admission (POA) Indicator Reporting by Acute Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Hospitals Fact Sheet.  Among other things, the fact sheets provide:

• the list of affected and exempt hospitals;
• the implementation timeline;
• a detailed chart on the category of conditions; 
• general reporting requirements; and
• information on coding, documentation and claims.

CMS also recently posted the presentation from the December 17, 2007 listening session on HACs and POA indicator reporting on the CMS website.