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In the Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule for 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services established a benchmark of two midnights for an inpatient admission and issued robust requirements for documentation.
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Hospitals stand to lose more reimbursement.
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Make sure record is complete
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Faced with denials for short stays and pressure to get patients out of the emergency department, Massachusetts General Hospital established an emergency department observation unit for patients whose stays are likely to be 24 hours or less.
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Program cuts admissions, ED visits
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The primary ethical concern with human egg donation is that there are no long-term studies on the safety of this practice, according to Jennifer Lahl, president of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network in Pleasant Hill, CA.
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More than one-third of 310 medical students surveyed had a moderate to strong bias against obese people, according to a recent study.1
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While the field of bioethics has traditionally embraced a diversity of approaches to clinical ethics consultations, there is now a general consensus for the need to agree of some basic standards in order to evaluate the quality and impact of the service.
