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Medicare requires that when discharging a patient from an inpatient stay, the discharging facility reports the discharge disposition in the “Patient Discharge Status” field (FL 17). The claim must include the discharge status code that most accurately reflects the discharge of the patient.
Discharges or transfers to long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) should be coded with Patient discharge status Code 63. This code indicates that the patient is discharged/transferred to a Medicare-certified nursing facility in anticipation of skilled care. For hospitals with an approved swing bed arrangement, providers should use Code 61- Swing Bed.
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claims. This code indicates the disposition or discharge status of the beneficiary on the submitted claim. The NUBC approved patient status code 70 and defined it as “discharge/transfer to another type of health care institution not defined elsewhere in the code list.” This code is effective for use by providers for discharges
The discharge status code identifies where the patient is being discharged to at the end of their facility stay or transferred to such as an acute/post-acute facility. The discharging facility should ensure that documentation in the patient’s medical record supports the billed discharge status code.
Guidance for use of the discharge status code to identify where patients are being discharged to at the end of their facility stay or transferred to. It clarifies that billing the incorrect code could affect payment.
Patient discharge status codes are part of the Official UB-04 Data Specifications Manual and are used nationwide by institutional, private, and public providers, and payers of health care claims.
• The UB-04 claim form includes the Patient Status Code as Field Locator 17. The Patient Status Code is a two-digit code to indicate the disposition or discharge status of the beneficiary on a submitted claim. It is a required field on all institutional claims.
NUBC FL17 codes Encounter Activity: sdtc:dischargeDispositionCode Phrases like “Discharge to acute care facility” and “Discharged to home for hospice care” and each of these more general ideas became a value set into which they put all the SNOMED CT codes that “mapped” to that more general idea.
Frequently Used Status Codes; Patient Discharge Status Codes & Hospital Transfers ...