Nothing matters more to hospitals than the wellbeing of the people they serve. Well, there may be one thing — money. Maybe that’s why you’re unlikely to find any hospital commercials touting...
When two midnights doesn’t equal three days
By
Carol Levine
Sep 23, 2013
Hospital observation stays have been increasing, as have Medicare auditors’ denial of claims related to short inpatient stays on the basis that they should have been counted as observation stays....