{"id":24829,"date":"2025-08-28T07:51:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T11:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24829"},"modified":"2025-08-28T07:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T11:51:55","slug":"more-medicare-patients-leaving-hospitals-against-medical-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24829","title":{"rendered":"More Medicare patients leaving hospitals against medical advice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By:\u00a0Paige Twenter for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rate of Medicare enrollees leaving acute care hospitals against medical advice increased 46% between 2006 and 2023, from 0.68% to 0.99% of discharges, according to a report from HHS\u2019 Office of Inspector General.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/care-coordination\/more-medicare-patients-leaving-hospitals-against-medical-advice\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/care-coordination\/more-medicare-patients-leaving-hospitals-against-medical-advice\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"107\" class=\"wp-image-7802\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/hospital-emergency-room-medical-medicare-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By:\u00a0Paige Twenter for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The rate of Medicare enrollees leaving acute care hospitals against medical advice increased 46%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,6],"tags":[1880,308,61],"class_list":["post-24829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dhs-oig","category-medicare-general","tag-against-medical-advice","tag-dhs-office-of-inspector-general","tag-medicare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24830,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24829\/revisions\/24830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}