Observation Stays
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Health Affairs: Rising Use Of Observation Care Among The Commercially Insured May Lead to Total And Out-Of-Pocket Cost Savings
Tags: Commercially Insured, Health Affairs, Inpatient Spending, Observation Stays, Out-of-Pocket, Peer Reviewed Journals
Read more: Health Affairs: Rising Use Of Observation Care Among The Commercially Insured May Lead to Total And Out-Of-Pocket Cost SavingsABSTRACT: Proponents of hospital-based observation care argue that it has the potential to reduce health care spending and lengths-of-stay, compared to short-stay inpatient hospitalizations. However, critics have raised concerns about the out-of-pocket spending associated with observation care. Recent reports of high out-of-pocket spending among Medicare beneficiaries have received considerable media attention and have prompted direct policy…
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Medicare Advantage Health Care Utilization – Observation Stays
Read more: Medicare Advantage Health Care Utilization – Observation StaysThis data brief reports on outpatient observations stays in the Medicare Advantage population from 2010 through 2014. The results show that the rate of observations stays increased in total as well as following hospitalizations.