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No. Each inpatient hospital stay does not need to be both acute and observation for direct transfer. When assessing for direct transfer, include those with acute inpatient to acute inpatient, observation to observation, acute inpatient to observation and observation to acute inpatient.
This applies to both MY 2026 and MY 2025
