[House Atreides]

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
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Yes, I understand that it is CMMS’ reimbursement policies that are motivating (almost requiring IMHO) the hospital administrators to “guess” the best way to categorize each patient. Unfortunately the (financial) welfare of the patient can get lost in this process.

I should have put a ‘/sarc’ tag for my post-—Michelle Obama didn't prioritize the patient when she would try to steer “non payers” to other hospitals. It's all about the Benjamins.

[Mom MD]

I spend inordinate time during my day trying to justify inattentive status for patients and doing appeals with insurance companies it’s not the docs fault or our decision who is inattentive or outpatient the system is broken but only getting worse with obamacare