Your hospital status (whether the hospital classifies you as an inpatient or outpatient) affects how much you pay for hospital services such as X-rays, drugs and lab tests. It also may affect whether ...
The care transition period between inpatient psychiatric hospitalization and initiation of outpatient mental health services is a time of extraordinarily heightened suicide risk that has been woefully ...
When you go to a hospital, does it make any difference if you’re considered an “inpatient” or an “outpatient?” Yes, it does. Your hospital status (whether the hospital classifies you as an inpatient ...
About five years ago, South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside, N.Y., saw about 62 percent of its volume from the inpatient side and 38 percent on an outpatient basis. Now, however, that ratio ...
Whether Obamacare or Trumpcare, we expect that there will continue to be substantial movement from the inpatient to outpatient arena. (A) The movement to outpatient care has been gradual but ...
Dear Toni: My husband recently fell from a ladder, shattered his hip and broke his right leg. After having emergency surgery, Jim is having a stay in a skilled nursing facility for his rehab to learn ...
A new study published in Clinical Spine Surgery compares outpatient single-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion to inpatient cases. Study authors examined data from the Nationwide Surgical ...
A literature review, published in Orthopedic Reviews, compared associated costs for outpatient orthopedic surgeries that are traditionally performed as inpatient procedures. Researchers examined 3,412 ...
CHICAGO — Results presented at the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Annual Meeting showed significantly lower costs related to outpatient total shoulder arthroplasty when compared with inpatient ...