When they are done on an outpatient basis, the very same procedures won’t come with a possible three-day stay needed to trigger coverage of skilled nursing care.

The U.S. House of Representatives plans to weigh in on a possible five-year extension of the CMS waiver for acute hospital care at home. The House will consider the Hospital Inpatient Services ...

Skilled nursing leaders are renewing calls to eliminate the three-day stay rule in light of a policy change that the Centers ...

Physician staffing shortages are serious, with rural hospitals in particular having a difficult time keeping enough doctors ...

As patient care continues to move from inpatient to outpatient settings, hospitals are mobilizing for change. The March 2016 Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Report to the Congress: Medicare ...

Many health systems are not currently considering inpatient capital projects because it is incredibly difficult to generate an appropriate profit margin with the current market pressures around ...

Hospital groups and patient advocacy organizations clashed over potential benefits and harms of the latest Medicare payment policies and rates for hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgical center ...

Today, Governor Kathy Hochul and Dr. Philip Ozuah, President and CEO of Montefiore Einstein, were joined by New York State ...

Carle Health patients across central Illinois will have better access to elevated inpatient rehabilitation services starting ...

The nation’s largest owner and operator of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals announced its plans to construct a new rehabilitation hospital in Fishers. According to a news ...

Sen. John Fetterman made headlines in mid-February, after his spokesperson announced that the Pennsylvania Democrat was receiving inpatient treatment for depression. Adam Jentleson said in a statement ...

Tennessee seeks $20 million to build a mental health facility in Knoxville, addressing a critical shortage of inpatient ...