A Brief History of the 3-Day Hospital Stay Ruledoi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.0744Mor, VincentJAMA Internal Medicine
For nearly 50 years Medicare has required patients to endure at least a three-day stint in the hospital before they become eligible for coverage of skilled nursing care afterward. A new study, however, finds that the main consequence of waiving the rule, as Medicare Advantage plans commonly do...
Performing imaging or laboratory tests to rule out other conditions could potentially delay the administration of broad-spectrum antibiotics in the emergency departments. The patient-to-medical staff ratio and emergency department overcrowding may be additional factors that contribute to the rate of ...
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CMS 2 MN indicates the promulgation date of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ 2-midnight rule; Inp ≥24 h/<24 h, 24 hours or more/less inpatient length of stay; KFHP, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan; Obs, observation; and Pub, meeting public reporting specifications. Figure 3....
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All the lengths of stay were computed using exact days (number of hours/24) but for cases missing any information on time, we calculated lengths of stay according to the rule proposed by Ruttiman and Pollack [33]. At the end of the study period, each study unit was required to re-...
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42 CFR §422 and §480; Medicare programs; hospital inpatient value-based purchasing program; proposed rule. Fed Regist. 2011;76(88):26489-26547. 2. US Department of Health & Human Services. Hospital Compare—a tool provided by Medicare. http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov. Accessed February...
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