There's no stopping Mary Higgins. The 95-year-old Wilmington, Delaware, resident lived in her own apartment and, with the help of her dear friend of 50 years, Regina Titus, mostly took care of herself ...

New research suggests observation care may lower spending for patients with private insurance. That may complicate policy decisions based on the high out-of-pocket costs for patients with Medicare ...

May 18--A health care riddle that can cost Medicare patients thousands of dollars or block them from nursing home care is bringing increasing demands for change. When is a patient who spends one or ...

An increasing number of seniors who spend time in the hospital are surprised to learn that they were not “admitted” patients — even though they may have stayed overnight in a hospital bed and received ...

For commercially insured patients, observation status may improve cost savings Providers are increasingly putting patients under observation before deciding to admit them for inpatient stays, ...

The use of hospital observation instead of hospital admission is becoming increasingly common for Medicare beneficiaries; however, it may mean unexpectedly higher out-of-pocket costs. The use of ...

I recently was in the hospital but it wasn’t covered by my hospitalization. They said I was under “outpatient observation.” What does this mean? Outpatient observation is used for patients who have ...

Evaluation of long-term toxicity after chemotherapy for testicular cancer. A line-by-line inspection of the charges generated during a course of adjuvant pelvic and paraaortic radiotherapy and of ...

BOSTON -- Many men with low-risk, localized prostate cancers can safely choose active surveillance or "watchful waiting" instead of undergoing immediate treatment and have better quality of life while ...