Medicare officials announced Thursday that they will delay enforcement of controversial new rules that define when hospital patients should receive observation care, rather than being admitted, a ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services delayed implementation of a rule that defines observation care cases, citing complaints by the hospital industry that the rules were often confusing. The ...
Provider groups are pushing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to change what some consider an outdated and punitive rule regarding observation status. Medicare currently does not pay for ...
US House lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that would apply hospital ‘observation status’ designation toward Medicare’s three-day qualifying hospital stay requirement. If the legislation passes, more ...
The Center for Medicare Advocacy says a new rule released by HHS does not do enough to correct billing procedures that make it financially beneficial for a hospital to classify patients as outpatients ...
Medicare patients’ chances of being admitted to the hospital or kept for observation depend on what hospital they go to — even when their symptoms are the same, notes a federal watchdog agency in a ...
(This rule is separate from Medicare's so-called "two-midnight rule" which is designed to guide doctors and hospitals about when patients should be admitted.) No matter how long these patients stay, ...
A Medicare policy change meant to reduce the number of hospital observation stays actually is having the opposite effect, a senior Johns Hopkins Medical System executive told a Congressional panel ...
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