March 19, 2014 Short Hospital Stay? CMS Doesn’t Want to Pay The Two-Midnight Rule implies that inpatient stays of less than two days are unnecessary and should be paid for as outpatient, not inpatient, care. Yet more than one in six hospitalizations in southeastern Pennsylvania fall into this short-stay category.
January 24, 2014 What Lessons Do We Need to Learn From the December Bipartisan Budget Deal? Time seemed to stand still in Washington, D.C. during the sixteen-day government shutdown in October. Although public frustration quickly reached a boiling point, days turned into weeks and there was little in the way of real conversations to break the log-jam.