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Pull the Plug on Short Hospital Stay Policy Issues

Published on Fri Jul 17, 2015

Get familiar with 5 MedPAC policy recommendations and more. The advancement in health care technology has drastically reduced the length of hospital stays. However, on the flip side, the debate of whether a patient requires inpatient admission or can be treated as an outpatient has heated up. Medicare saw 1 million one-day inpatient stays (13 percent of the total inpatient [...]
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