Hospital ABNs (Hospital-Issued Notices of Noncoverage - HINN)

80 - Hospital ABNs (Hospital-Issued Notices of Noncoverage - HINN) (Rev. 594, Issued: 06-24-05, Effective: 07-01-05, Implementation: 07-01-05) Instructions for the Hospital ABN have been retracted. Instructions related to HINNs have been relocated as follows: • Instructions regarding HINNs are found in this instruction, CR 3903, which precedes the placement of full instructions in Chapter 30. • Instructions regarding hospital billing for cases involving QIO review will be relocated to a new section in Chapter 1 of this manual in the near future. Current procedures should not change in the interim. Related instructions for QIOs can be found in the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization Manual, Publication 100-10, Chapter 7.