Hartford Healthcare Eyes Aggressive Capital Investments

Published April 9, 2014

Hartford Healthcare eyes aggressive capital investments
It will include 10 operating rooms, about 50 inpatient beds and house all of Hartford Healthcare's orthopedics and musculoskeletal care providers and services including primary and specialty care, diagnostics, rehabilitation, rheumatology, neurology …
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DOCTOR'S ORDERS
Worse, without an inpatient stay, rehabilitation services and skilled nursing care will not be covered by Medicare, hitting unsuspecting patients with huge added medical bills. 3. Obamacare's new Medicare rules deny payment if a hospital patient is …
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Discrepancies Exist Between Administrative Database Codes and Surgeons …
A research team led by Yakov Gologorsky, MD, focused on statistics in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS), which classifies cases using ICD-9-CM discharge codes—codes assigned by hospital medical coders rather than by surgeons. In The Nationwide …
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