The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will make an adjustment to the MS-DRG

payment for certain conditions that the patient was not admitted with, but were acquired during
the hospital stay. Therefore, hospitals are required to report an indicator for each diagnosis. This
indicator is referred to as
A. a sentinel event.
B. a payment status indicator.
C. a hospital acquired condition.
D. present on admission.


D

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