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42 CFR 482.24 Condition of participation: Medical record services
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School (text of the Code of Federal Regulations), n.d.
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- What it is
- The federal Medicare rule on what a hospital medical record must contain, including the discharge summary.
- How much weight it carries
- Official regulation text as reproduced by the Cornell Legal Information Institute. It applies to Medicare-participating hospitals, and the list of required contents is a minimum.
Facts taken from this source
- Medicare's hospital medical record rules require the record to contain a discharge summary with the outcome of the hospitalization, the disposition of the case and provisions for follow-up care.
“Discharge summary with outcome of hospitalization, disposition of case, and provisions for follow-up care.” (Paragraph (c)(4)(vii))