Target your efforts for 2012
Strategies for Health Care Compliance, January 1, 2012
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Criticism is growing regarding observation stays. Patient groups say the explosion in observation stays hurts patients by denying them eligibility for skilled nursing facility and other postacute services, subjecting them to higher co-sharing costs, says
William Sarraille, Esq.
, a partner at Sidley Austin, LLP, in Washington, DC.
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