The Hospital Finance Podcast
Transfer DRG from a PFS perspective
In this episode, BESLER's Olga Barone-Allan joins the podcast to discuss the Transfer DRG rule from a Patient Financial Services perspective. Highlights of this episode include: background on the Medicare Transfer DRG rule and how it was established to discourage transfers for financial purposes, how billing departments are notified that a claim is coded correctly or incorrectly as a discharge and not a transfer, ways that hospitals can foster communication between PFS, utilization management, and HIM departments, what providers can do to find the 15% of claims that are underpaid, and more...