Days in hospital under observation care might not qualify for Medicare coverage Senior advocates say technicality is unfair to patients Arguments begin Friday in ...

There's no stopping Mary Higgins. The 95-year-old Wilmington, Delaware, resident lived in her own apartment and, with the help of her dear friend of 50 years, Regina Titus, mostly took care of herself ...

If you're on Medicare and you're in the hospital for a few days, you may think you're an inpatient. The hospital may have other ideas. Increasingly, hospitals are placing older patients on ...

The Ohio State University Medical Center has seen a decline in patient admissions in recent months. It's not a big drop - 1.5 percent compared with the same period last year - but any drop is unusual ...

It’s a confusing situation for patients and a financially necessary one for hospitals: If a hospital cannot decide whether a patient is appropriate for inpatient admission, the patient can be kept up ...

May 18--A health care riddle that can cost Medicare patients thousands of dollars or block them from nursing home care is bringing increasing demands for change. When is a patient who spends one or ...

Insight provides an in-depth look at health care issues in and affecting California. Have a story suggestion? Let us know. Some seniors think Medicare made a mistake. Others are stunned when they find ...

Hospital observation units are more common today than 10 years ago, but many hospitals and insurers still haven’t established billing systems or insurance contracts to acknowledge these units — an ...

If you find yourself in the emergency department and the doctor says he wants to keep you at the hospital for "observation," take heed. Depending on the hospital, observation can mean very different ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center opened a 16-bed ...