Rising Billing for Intermediate Intensive Care Among Hospitalized Medicare Beneficiaries Between 1996 and 2010.

CONCLUSIONS: Intermediate care billing increased markedly between 1996 and 2010. These findings highlight the need to better define the value, specific practices, and effective use of intermediate care for patients and hospitals. PMID: 26372779 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine - September 15, 2015 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Sjoding MW, Valley TS, Prescott HC, Wunsch H, Iwashyna TJ, Cooke CR Tags: Am J Respir Crit Care Med Source Type: research