Hospitals being pressured to place patients in lower-cost observation status and patients are fighting back

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 [...]