Emergency department observation is defined as “use of a bed and periodic monitoring by the hospital’s nursing or other ancillary staff, which are reasonable and necessary to evaluate an outpatient’s ...

Hospitals Increase Use of Observation Stays, Creating Coverage Issues for Medicare Patients Hospitals across the country are using observation stay classifications among Medicare patients with greater ...

Using observation units more efficiently could save hospitals $4.6 million annually and $3.1 billion nationally, according to Healthcare Finance News. A national study showed if hospitals without ...