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Ask the doctor or hospital. You may get a Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON) that lets you know if youâre an inpatient or outpatient in a hospital or critical access hospital. You must get this notice if you're getting outpatient observation services for at least 24 hours.
On the plus side for hospitals, patients who are discharged from observation units cannot be qualified as readmissions, should they require inpatient admission within 30 days. This was a second reason for observation units, to reduce the amount of hospital readmissions.