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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 17 > Were you admitted to the hospital? Maybe you should check

Were you admitted to the hospital? Maybe you should check

Medicare, insurance may not pay for visits logged as ‘observation stays’

By Judith Graham / The Bulletin
March 17, 2009

CHICAGO — Judith Quinn was sure she’d been admitted to the hospital. After all, she had stayed two weeks on a hospital ward, attended by hospital nurses, eating hospital food and being examined by hospital physicians, after suffering a severe seizure.

But Quinn, 68, of La....

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