Observation Status; Huge Difference in Revenue, Don't Get in a Trick Bag

Learning objectives

• How Observation is care is the bridge from Office to ED and from ED to Observation and from Observation to Inpatient
• Evaluation and Management (H and P’s, Progress notes, Consultations) is the key for escalation of care
• Reasons for common denials to request inpatient care based on documentation
• Understanding the patient’s cost share differences (Medicare) when observation care services are performed rather escalated to Inpatient Services
• Why knowing what the inpatient only list is and how it can make a difference in planned surgeries