Medicare Benefit Policy Manual (Pub. 100-02), Ch. 4 § 10.1

Patient Status on Day of Entitlement

Last amended: 2003Year: 2003Length: 94 wordsOfficial source
10.1 - Patient Status on Day of Entitlement (Rev. 1, 10-01-03) A3-3104.1, HO-217.1 A patient in a participating psychiatric hospital on the first day of entitlement is subject to this reduction. The reduction applies to patients admitted to or discharged from such a hospital on their first day of entitlement, or who begin or end a leave of absence on that day. Where only a distinct part of an institution is participating as a psychiatric hospital, the provision applies only to patients who, on their first day of entitlement, are inpatients of that part.
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