Medicare uses the 2-midnight rule to determine whether to bill a hospital stay under Part A or Part B. This rule has implications for both costs and coverage. Original Medicare consists of Part A ...

Kodiak Solutions said its analysis of hospital inpatient and outpatient claims data suggests that payers are “continuing to apply their own criteria for inpatient admission and dismissing the ...

A coalition of health-care systems, led by Novant Health Inc., has agreed to another stay in their lawsuit against the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services involving the “two ...

Leaders of the four major publicly traded for-profit health systems were asked about the effects of the expansion of the two-midnight rule during the Wells Fargo Healthcare Conference held in early ...