Inpatient definition

Inpatient means an Insured Person who is Confined.

Inpatient means a person who is admitted to a hospital or other licensed healthcare facility for care, and is classified as inpatient. You are not inpatient when you are in a hospital or other health care facility solely for observation, even though you may use a bed or stay overnight. See Observation Services in Section 3 for additional information.

Inpatient means any person who, while confined to a Hospital, is assigned to a bed in any department of the Hospital other than its outpatient department and for whom a charge for Room and Board is made by the Hospital.

Examples of Inpatient in a sentence

• Inpatient A patient who receives healthcare service at a Client Facility and spends at least one night at the Facility, and is identified as such on the Client’s electronic medical record.

• Outpatient 20% - After deductible 40% - After deductible In a physician’s office 20% - After deductible 40% - After deductible Inpatient 20% - After deductible 40% - After deductible Outpatient 20% - After deductible 40% - After deductible Skilled or sub-acute care 20% - After deductible 40% - After deductible Outpatient hospital/in a physician’s/therapist’s office.

• The variable EMERROOM was derived directly from the Hospital Inpatient Stays section of the HC survey instrument and is unedited.

• An Expedited Appeal also includes requests concerning an Admission, availability of care, continued stay, or health care service for a Plan Participant currently in the emergency room, under observation, or receiving Inpatient care.

• Clinical Classifications for Health Policy Research: Health Inpatient Statistics, 1995.

More Definitions of Inpatient

Inpatient means a person confined in a Skilled Nursing Home, Rehabilitation Facility or Rehabilitative Hospital, for whom a daily room and board charge is made.

Inpatient means a worker who is admitted to a hospital before and extending past midnight for treatment and lodging.

Inpatient means being confined in a Hospital or Skilled Nursing Facility as a registered bed patient under a Physician's order.

Inpatient means a Participant who receives care as a registered and assigned bed patient while confined in a Hospital, other than in its outpatient department, where a room and board is charged by the Hospital.

Inpatient means an injured worker who is admitted to a hospital prior to and extending past midnight for treatment and lodging.

Inpatient means a person who is admitted to a hospital or other licensed facility, is classified as inpatient and is admitted for at least one overnight stay.

Inpatient means the classification of a Covered Person when that person is admitted to a Hospital, Hospice, or Skilled Nursing Facility for treatment, and charges are made for Room and Board to the Covered Person as a result of such treatment.