{"id":747,"date":"2015-08-27T17:26:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T21:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=747"},"modified":"2015-08-27T17:26:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T21:26:31","slug":"out-of-pocket-costs-related-to-observation-stays-hurting-medicare-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"Out-of-pocket costs related to observation stays hurting Medicare patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trend to have patients undergo &#8220;observation \u00a0stays&#8221;\u00a0to determine if formal admission is required appears to be generating cumulative out-of-pocket costs that sometimes exceed deductibles, a report\u00a0posted on\u00a0endonurse.com indicates. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.endonurse.com\/news\/2015\/08\/observation-stays-over-hospital-admissions-drives.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Read the article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The\u00a0 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; socialsecurityreport.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.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trend to have patients undergo &#8220;observation \u00a0stays&#8221;\u00a0to determine if formal admission is required appears to be generating cumulative out-of-pocket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}