Hospitals being pressured to place patients in lower-cost observation status and patients are fighting back
Posted on May 15th, 2012 by buschchiro
Hospitals report that they’re being pressured to reverse Medicare patients’ status of inpatient hospitalization, if the patient has had a short inpatient hospital stay. The federal government has made short inpatient hospital stays a target in the attempt to reclassify or under-place many patients into a lower-cost observation status as part of cost savings. The [...]
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