Hospitals that have within hospital transfer patients (i.e., patient transferred from one unit to another within the same hospital) should report the case as it is collected in the EHR. For example, if your EHR represents a patient transferred from a rehab unit to an acute care unit as a combined record in your EHR, please report this episode of care as one record, even if two separate bills are generated for the rehab and the inpatient admission. In this case, report this patient's Source of Admission based on the patient's initial presentation to your facility (i.e., the rehab unit in this example). If there are two separate records in the EHR, please submit it as two separate cases if inclusion criteria are met for each case. In this case, report the patient's Source of Admission as "4 – Transfer from a Hospital (Different Facility)," and report your own facility's PFI for the Transferred In and Transferred Out variables, respective to each record. In both cases, be sure to use the appropriate discharge disposition to accurately represent the case.
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