Patient Days definition

Patient Days means the total number of patients occupying beds in a long term care facility for all days in the calendar period for which an assessment is being reported and paid. For purposes of this subsection, if a long term care facility patient is admitted and discharged on the same day, the patient shall be deemed to occupy a bed for one day.

Patient Days means the total number of days of service provided to inpatients over a 12-month period, usually expressed as annual patient days measured. This figure includes observation days if the observation patient occupies a bed that is included in IDPH's Inventory of Health Care Facilities and Services and Need Determinations.

Patient Days means the number of days of inpatient services based on the most recent full year of hospital discharge data or the annual hospital questionnaire.

Examples of Patient Days in a sentence

• Our findings as a result of these procedures are presented in the Summary of Costs and Total Patient Days, Adjustment Report, and Cost of Capital Reimbursement Analysis sections of this report.

• Malpractice insurance costs shall be apportioned to Medicaid in the ratio of Medicaid Patient Days to Total Patient Days, if not already included in the cost report being used to establish the Medicaid hospital inpatient rates.

• Patient Days - Report the number of patient days of care provided during the report period by patient type.

• Use both narrative and charts to show competitor utilization statistics with comparisons to the hospital in inpatient areas such as Discharges, Average Length of Stay, Percent Occupancy, Patient Days, Average Daily Census, Available Beds.

• Medi-Cal Denied Patient Days and Non-Covered Services:Medi-Cal/CCS and other State of California programs patients are eligible for Charity Care write-offs related to denied stays in limited circumstances (e.g., when the admission/services were medically necessary as determined by the treating physician or the patient was not safe to discharge and there is no administrative day payment).

More Definitions of Patient Days

Patient Days means total patient days, inclusive of paid leave days, from the most recently desk reviewed or field audited cost report.

Patient Days means the total number of days of service provided to inpatients of a facility over a 12- month period. This figure includes observation days if the observation patient occupies a bed that is included in the State Agency's Inventory of Health Care Facilities and Services as described in Section 1100.70.

Patient Days means the number of patients in a nursing facility as determined by the midnight census.

Patient Days means the day of admission plus each additional day of stay, but not the day of discharge, unless it is also the day of admission.¶

Patient Days means the total number of pa- tients occupying beds in a long term care facility, de- termined as of 11:59 p.m. of each day, for all days in the calendar period for which an assessment is being re- ported and paid. For purposes of this subsection, if a long term care facility patient is admitted and dis- charged on the same day, the patient shall be deemed present on 11:59 p.m. of that day.

Patient Days means the sum of all census days less the sum of all leave days (authorized or unauthorized absences when patient is not under direct supervision of psychiatric care setting staff).

Patient Days means the total number of pa- tients occupying beds in a long term care facility for all days in the calendar period for which an assessment is being reported and paid. For purposes of this sub- section, if a long term care facility patient is admitted and discharged on the same day, the patient shall be deemed to occupy a bed for one day. [2003 c.736 §15; 2005 c.757 §3; 2007 c.70 §358; 2007 c.780 §7]