US · guidance
CMS Pub. 100-04, ch. 30, § 80
Hospital ABNs (Hospital-Issued Notices of Noncoverage - HINN)
Instructions for the Hospital ABN have been retracted. Instructions related to HINNs
have been relocated as follows:
• Instructions regarding HINNs are found in this instruction, CR 3903, which
precedes the placement of full instructions in Chapter 30.
• Instructions regarding hospital billing for cases involving QIO review will be
relocated to a new section in Chapter 1 of this manual in the near future. Current
procedures should not change in the interim.
Related instructions for QIOs can be found in the Medicare Quality Improvement
Organization Manual, Publication 100-10, Chapter 7.
History
(Rev. 594, Issued: 06-24-05, Effective: 07-01-05, Implementation: 07-01-05)
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-25
- Edition
- iom-2026-08-25
- Content hash
ca737887bfc669c1433677d6036e2d74fb9b61ed2da0f796d61873183934af2d
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