It pays to read your email, according to AHCJ member Lisa Chedekel, co-founder of the Connecticut Health I-Team (C-Hit), a group of experienced journalists who provide in-depth reporting on health and safety issues in the Nutmeg state and surrounding region. She came across a new OIG report which supports an ongoing investigation into observational status of hospitalized Medicare patients.
Read her shared wisdom about the problem of patients placed on “observational status” and how she was able to back up anecdotal reports with hard data.