The nurse-included care plan is inpatient pain management for Medicare-covered hospice patients.
What is inpatient care?
- Inpatient care is the treatment of patients whose medical conditions require hospitalization. Advances in modern medicine and the advent of extensive outpatient clinics have led to patients being hospitalized only when they are seriously ill or have suffered severe physical trauma.
- Inpatient care is provided primarily through referrals from general practitioners and prior outpatient care such as emergency departments. With the creation of the admission letter, the patient officially becomes an "inpatient".
- Inpatient treatment generally requires hospitalization, whereas outpatient treatment does not. The big difference is whether or not hospitalization is required.
Does constant (inpatient) mean overnight?
Your hospitalization status also affects whether Medicare will pay for medical care you receive after being admitted to a licensed nursing facility (SNF). A patient is an inpatient if he or she has been formally admitted to the hospital under the direction of a doctor. The last day of hospitalization is the day before discharge.
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