If a patient is transferred from a general hospital to an inpatient psychiatric facility, who is responsible for obtaining admission certification?
The psychiatric facility should submit the request for review after the patient has been admitted to inpatient status at their facility. back to top 16) Quality Screening/Review a) When a hospitalization is reviewed through the admission/concurrent review process, is it reviewed for quality? Behavioral health hospitalizations and medical/surgical hospitalizations are subject to a concurrent quality screening process. The concurrent quality screening is performed to identify potential quality of care issues. Should a potential quality of care issue be identified in the concurrent review, it will only be confirmed after a full chart review by a physician peer reviewer. b) What is the difference between quality of care screening and quality review? The quality of care screening is conducted during the admission/concurrent review process. It is based on the information provided by the facility via phone or web submission. A comprehensive quality review is conducted during a retrospective r
