The article reports on present on admission (POA) indicators and Medicare administrative contracts (MACs). According to the author, hospitals need to have a POA indicator for every diagnosis on inpatient acute care hospital claims for it to be able to group the diagnoses into the right diagnosis...
Methods: The latest AHRQ PSI software, which allows users to produce 14 of the 20 PSIs for adult inpatients both without and with a "present on admission" (PoA) variable, was applied to administrative data for adult patients discharged from the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) in...
Data fields that capture whether diagnoses are present on admission (POA)--distinguishing comorbidities from potential in-hospital complications--became part of the Uniform Bill for hospital claims in 2007. The AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) were initially developed as measures of potential patie...
legislation that was passed in 2005 which requires the identification of preventable hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) or nosocomial infections and focuses on the "present on admission" (POA) indicators which are used in the Inpatient Prospective Payment System for hospital claims under Medicare. The...
Health care management Understanding and Assessing the Usefulness of Present on Admission Indicators as a Predictor of Hospital Readmission UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA Stephan T. Parente RosenthalJames EThe objective of this study is to evaluate Present on Admission (POA) indicators as a new data source ...
Background: Among the various methods used, administrative data collected for claims and billing purposes, such as diagnosis codes and present-on-admission (POA) indicators, can easily be employed to assess patient safety status. However, it is crucial that administrative data be accurate to ...
This study investigated the usefulness of present-on-admission (POA), specifically focusing on decubitus ulcers, delirium, and hypokalemia, as an indicator of healthcare quality.Patients and Methods: We analyzed patient discharge data for 14 years from 2006 to 2019 using Korean Nat...
Present on admission overview: POA reporting requirements can vary from state to state.(trends issues)(present on admission)Murer, Cherilyn G
ElizabethChu, Philip W.Bacchetti, PeterKruger, JennaBindman, AndrewHealth services research: HSRGoldman LE, Chu PW, Bacchetti P et al. Effect of Present-on-Admission (POA) reporting accuracy on hospital performance assessments using risk-adjusted mortality. Health Serv Res 2014;50:922-938....
For each simulation, we changed POA indicators for six major acute risk factors of AMI mortality. The probability of POA being changed depended on patient and hospital characteristics.Principal FindingsComparing the performance rankings of 268 hospitals using the established model with that using the ...