As Observation Rates Soar, Patients Are Left in Limbo

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As Observation Rates Soar, Patients Are Left in Limbo
By Richard Scott
July 1, 2012

Observation status – the designation hospitals confer on patients who are treated in the hospital but are not considered inpatients – is in the middle of serious ongoing policy debates, as divergent parties, including national organizations and patients themselves, are left to figure out what it all...

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