• Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
• American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
• American Hospital Association (AHA)
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield
• California Office of Statewide Health Planning & Development
• 3M HIS
• Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project
• Illinois Hospital Association
• National Association of Health Data Organizations
• National Center for Health Statistics
• NCVHS Workgroup on Quality
• NUBC

POA indicators must be reported for inpatient acute care hospital discharges of October 1, 2007. See the CMS MedLearn Matters and Change Request Transmittal.

		POA MM5499 5 11 07 (pdf) - CMS MedLearn Matters
		POA CMS 5 11 07 CR 5499 R1240CP (pdf) - Change Request Transmittal

CMS Website
Information, guidelines, examples, and  codes exempt from POA.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) website
Information, guidelines, examples, and  codes exempt from POA; 12 pages
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs

URL to NUBC paper; 7 pages of info related to POA
http://www.nubc.org/public/pubagenda/Feb06TENTagenda.pdf

Agency for Health Care Quality & Research
http://www.ahrq.gov/

Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project Report
http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/2006_1.pdf