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Discharge Reason Discharge Reasons are used to identify why a patient will no longer be serviced by the agency. The Discharge Reason is entered for the patient in the Clinical Patient Profile and can be viewed in the Billing Module under Patient > Admit/Maintain on the Admit tab. Also used for selection in the Discharge Disposition field of Patient > Admit/Maintain on the Admit tab. The Discharge Reason field is Required if discharging a patient. The Discharge Disposition is optional. Both can pull to the Discharge Summary report.
Go to File > File Maintenance > Category, press Change Type and set the radio button to Disch Reason.
To Add a Discharge Reason: Press the Add button. Assign a Code and enter a Description. Up to 12 alphanumeric characters can be used for the code, but shorter codes are recommended. The Codes must match between Clinical and the Billing Module. Status Code: Enter the patient discharge status code to appear on claims if needed for billing. This code pulls to Institutional electronic claims Loop 2300 and UB04 printed claims Box 17, if selected in the Billing Option set. For Medicare hospice, status codes TR, H2, or M2 can be entered to allow the status code 01 to populate to the claim but not the Occurrence Code 42 with Discharge Date (in addition codes H2 and M2 can be pulled as condition codes to the hospice claim per the option set). Press Save when done.
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