TUESDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) — Federal government pressure has led to an increasing number of Medicare patients being held for observation instead of being admitted to hospitals, a new study suggests.
Although this push to get hospitals to be careful about admitting seniors as inpatients may reduce costs to Medicare, it can lead to higher out-of-pocket costs for the patients, according to the researchers from Brown University in Providence, R.I.
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