NJHA will host a complimentary Webinar Nov. 21 featuring the Quality Improvement Organization Livanta to discuss the resumption of Beneficiary and Family Centered Care reviews.

The program – A Dialogue with Livanta: Resumption of Reviews of Short-Stay Hospital Claims for Patient Status; What’s New?  What’s Not New? What Does This Mean for Hospitals? – will take place from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

In May, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services temporarily paused the Beneficiary and Family Centered Care QIOs’ performance of initial patient status reviews to determine the appropriateness of Part A payment for short stay inpatient hospital claims. CMS said its action was intended to promote consistent application of the medical review policies regarding patient status for short hospital stays and to allow time to improve standardization in the BFCC-QIOs’ review process.

Effective Sept. 12, CMS lifted the temporary pause, and the QIOs have resumed initial patient status reviews of short stays in acute care inpatient hospitals, long-term care hospitals and inpatient psychiatric facilities.  This webinar will focus on the updated review process, the status of reviews conducted under the prior process, and what hospitals can expect with regard to Livanta’s outreach and education.

Target audience includes CEOs, chief operating officers, chief financial officers, physicians, nurses and other clinicians involved in two-midnight rule and short-stay documentation; compliance officers; in-house counsel; health information management staff; revenue cycle management staff; and RAC coordinators

The webinar is free, but registration is required.