QUESTION: My mother was in the Emergency Room (ER) and they couldn’t find out exactly what was wrong. The doctor recommended her staying at the hospital for observation. She has been there three days ...

IMAGINE this: You’re 68 years old. You were recently hospitalized due to an urgent condition. After three days you were discharged to a nursing facility for a few weeks of therapy and recovery. Now ...

If you’re wearing a hospital gown and lying in bed in a hospital room, it might seem logical to assume that you’ve been admitted to the hospital. However, this assumption could be wrong. You might ...

Going into the hospital is stressful enough. But if you’re a senior on Medicare, and you stay at a hospital under “observation status,” you may end up with serious financial pain, too. That’s because ...

A Senate bill introduced Wednesday would count days spent under ‘observation status’ in a hospital toward Medicare’s three-day qualifying stay requirement. The Improving Access to Medicare Coverage ...

The Iowa Insurance Division’s Senior Health Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) is letting Iowans know about a new Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON) which informs patients before they ...