Health Affairs November 7, 2021
The November issue of Health Affairs contains articles covering a broad range of topics, including hospital payment and services, trends related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces, the effects of adult dental Medicaid coverage, prescription drug development and usage, and more.
Hospitals
To reduce inappropriate inpatient billing for very short hospital stays, in 2013 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implemented the Two-Midnight rule, stating that Medicare inpatient payment was appropriate only if a hospital stay was expected to last through at least two midnights. Although the shift from inpatient to observation stays after the rule’s adoption has been previously reported, Sabrina Poon and colleagues analyze data from 2007–18, using additional methods, and conclude that the shift to...
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