Medicare, Observation Care, and the Two-Midnight Rule CRS In Focus

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emergency medical services.

Health facilities.

Hospitals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[United States] [publisher not identified] 2015

Summary:

Discusses CMS two-midnight rule, implemented to clarify to hospitals when an inpatient admission is considered medically necessary. Explains observation care, which is characterized as a component of emergency medicine that allows hospitals to triage patients who do not immediately require inpatient admission but are too sick to discharge immediately. Considers implications of inpatient and outpatient hospital status, summarizes reviews of short inpatient stays, and highlights recent shanges to the two-midnight rule

Notes:

CRS Report

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Other Format:

Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Medicare, Observation Care, and the Two-Midnight Rule,

Publisher Number:

CRS-2015-DSP-0385

Access Restriction:

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