It looks like claim reviews of short hospital stays will land on hospital doorsteps any minute. Livanta LLC, the CMS Beneficiary and Family Centered Care - Quality Improvement Organization (BFCC-QIO), which will do the audits, has sent emails to hospitals informing them they are subject to audits and confirming the person to contact.

“This is the first step,” said Steve Gillis, director of compliance coding, billing and audit at Mass General Brigham in Boston. But he said there are still unanswered questions.