Health Care Excel

Medicare Quality Improvement Organization

Pre-knowledge Assessment

Medicare Outpatient Observation or Inpatient Admission? That is The Question! Internet Self Study

Please identify your discipline by checking one of the following.

Physician

Nurse

Social Worker

Other, please list.

Please answer the following questions before proceeding to the education. When completed, right click to print your answers before submitting.

(You are responsible for scoring your knowledge assessments and submitting your scores on the verification form. You will not be able to access your answers after you click submit.)

1. Observation admissions from outpatient ambulatory surgery are exempt from the utilization review process.

True

False

2. Observation services are only for a 24-hour period from the time of the order.

True

False

3. Once a patient is admitted there is no recourse for billing an inpatient admission.

True

False

4. Observation status must be provided in a designated unit of the hospital.

True

False

5. Inpatient admission can be backdated to the beginning of the observation stay.

True

False

Right click to print your answers for scoring. Then, click on the submit button. You will be directed to the education.

Completed pre- and post-knowledge assessments, evaluation, and verification forms must be submitted to Health Care Excel no later than July 15, 2008 to receive credits.