This sounds like the type of hospital “policy” that Michelle Obama would have promoted in her Chicago gig—screw the patients and maximize net money to the hospital.
Exactly Mrs. RQSR’s response after I read/shouted the article to her.
You are so wrong. The hospital actually makes more money from inpatient status. Medicare sets the rules for inpatient and observation status, and if the hospital guesses wrong, they not only lose the payment for that patient, but can lose a percentage of their medicare payments overall. Medicare is driving this one