Hospitals Continue Pushing CMS To Change Two-Midnight Policy

Hospitals Continue Pushing CMS To Change Two-Midnight Policy-insidehealthpolicy: Mount Sinai Health System and 160 hospitals CEOs are not sitting quietly even though CMS' "two-midnight" hospital admissions policy went into effect Oct. 1, writing to Administrator Marilyn Tavenner late last week asking her to suspend the policy and issue sub-regulatory guidance allowing hospitals to continue using medical judgment for admissions expected to last less than two midnights.