OAPP Understanding Patient Status

November 3, 2025

Learning Objectives

Define how Medicare pays for hospital services.
Encourage the importance of documentation.
Understand how CMS differentiates observation from inpatient status.
Describe and apply the 2MN rule for medical and surgical patients.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AAPA Category I CME
  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
05/06/2025
Course expires: 
12/31/2025
Event starts: 
11/03/2025 - 12:00pm EST
Event ends: 
11/03/2025 - 1:00pm EST
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Virtual via Microsoft Teams
Pittsburgh, PA
United States


In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


Physician Assistant (AAPA)
The University of Pittsburgh has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1 AAPA Category 1 CME credit. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.  

Nursing (CNE)
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1 contact hour.

Other Healthcare Professionals
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AAPA Category I CME
  • 1.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 1.00 Attendance
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This event is full and we cannot accommodate additional registrations at this time. We have a limit on how many participants can be logged in to our virtual software at a given time. If you weren’t able to register for the live event, you can watch the recording on wiser.pitt.edu. The lecture will be posted there after the event date has taken place. If you have questions, please contact OAPP at [email protected].