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Present on admission and hospital-acquired conditions

How the present-on-admission indicator is used, and why a condition acquired in hospital cannot raise the payment for that admission.

Current version
v2.0
in force since 2025-10-01 · as at 2026-04-02
Versions on file
2
back to 2024-02-01
Applies to
Medicare Advantage · Medicaid
All states
Cited in this batch
7
claims tested against it

Where this sits

OwnerFacility Audit Policy
Lines of businessMedicare Advantage · Medicaid
StatesAll states
External basisCMS Hospital-Acquired Conditions and POA Indicator Reporting · 42 CFR 412.4

Version history

Newest first

A claim is tested against the version that was in force on its date of service. For a service last autumn, that is not the version at the top of this list.

v2.0 2025-10-01 → current In force now
POA validation extended from the CMS hospital-acquired condition list to every reported MCC.
No source document in the index. A finding on this version can cite it by name but cannot quote a passage.
  • A secondary diagnosis reported POA = N or POA = U is not counted towards severity for that admission.
  • The admission reprices to the DRG that results when the hospital-acquired condition is excluded.
  • The finding is a payment correction, not a quality-of-care determination.
v1.6 2024-02-01 → 2025-09-30 Superseded
POA validation limited to the published hospital-acquired condition list.
No source document in the index. A finding on this version can cite it by name but cannot quote a passage.
  • Conditions on the CMS HAC list reported POA = N do not count towards severity.

Claims in this batch tested against this policy

7 of 25
ClaimDate of serviceVersion applied RolePaidAt risk
CLM-0000015 09 Mar 2026 v2.0 Supporting $7,532.36
CLM-0000016 03 Mar 2026 v2.0 Supporting $13,791.64
CLM-0000017 14 Mar 2026 v2.0 Supporting $5,504.60
CLM-0000018 07 Mar 2026 v2.0 Supporting $7,012.01
CLM-0000019 21 Mar 2026 v2.0 Supporting $7,920.05
CLM-0000020 26 Mar 2026 v2.0 Supporting $5,787.93
CLM-0000014 05 Mar 2026 v2.0 Decisive $13,888.88 $6,572.28

This policy is synthetic — an internal document written for this demo. The external basis it cites is real.