Regulations On November 27, 2006, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule, CMS-4105-F: Notification of Hospital Discharge Appeal Rights. Beginning July 2, 2007, hospitals must deliver a revised version of the Important Message from Medicare to inform Medicare beneficiaries who are hospital inpatients about their hospital discharge appeal rights. Notice is required both for Original Medicare beneficiaries and for those enrolled in Medicare health plans. Beneficiaries who choose to appeal a discharge decision will receive a more detailed notice.The rule is posted below under "Downloads" along with the correction notice. Notices The final versions of the "Important Message from Medicare" and the "Detailed Notice of Discharge" are posted below along with the Manual Instructions for this process. Note: The Notice of Hospital Requested Review (HRR), also known as HINN 10, has been relocated to the HINN web page and can be accessed by clicking on the "HINNs" link below.
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