If you think you’re being asked to leave a hospital or other health care setting (discharged) too soon:
You may have the right to ask for a review of the discharge decision by the Beneficiary and Family Centered Care
Quality Improvement Organization (BFCC-QIO) before you leave.
A BFCC-QIO is a type of quality improvement organization (a group of doctors and other health care experts under contract with Medicare) that reviews complaints and quality of care for people with Medicare. To get the phone number for your BFCC-QIO, visit
Medicare.gov/contacts, or call 1-800-MEDICARE. You can also ask the staff for this information. If you’re in a hospital, the staff should give you a notice called “Important Message from Medicare”, which contains information on your BFCC-QIO. If you don’t get this notice, ask for it.