Medicare Two-Midnight Rule Accelerated Shift To Observation Stays

Autor: Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, Liliana Podczerwinski, Christopher J.D. Wallis, Sabrina J. Poon, Pikki Lai

Publikováno v: Health Affairs. 40:1688-1696

During the past two decades several policies have attempted to replace inappropriate hospital inpatient stays with observation hospital stays, where patients receive hospital care but are classified as outpatients. The Two-Midnight rule, adopted in O

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https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.00094

Medicare Two-Midnight Rule Accelerated Shift To Observation Stays.

Autor: Poon SJ; Sabrina J. Poon (sabrina.poon@vumc.org) is an assistant professor of emergency medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in Nashville, Tennessee., Wallis CJD; Christopher J. D. Wallis is an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Urology, University of Toronto, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At the time this work was conducted, he was a fellow in the Department of Urology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center., Lai P; Pikki Lai is a health policy analyst in the Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center., Podczerwinski L; Liliana Podczerwinski is a health policy analyst in the Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University Medical Center., Buntin MB; Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin is the Mike Curb Professor of Health Policy and chair of the Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Publikováno v: Health affairs (Project Hope) [Health Aff (Millwood)] 2021 Nov; Vol. 40 (11), pp. 1688-1696.