Hospital admission definition

Hospital admission means admission of a Covered Person to a Hospital as an Inpatient for Medically Necessary and Appropriate care and treatment of an Illness or Injury.

Hospital admission means admission of a [Member] to a Hospital as an Inpatient for Medically Necessary and Appropriate care and treatment of a Illness or Injury.

Hospital admission means each separate time a Covered Person is admitted to a Hospital as an Inpatient.

Examples of Hospital admission in a sentence

• An Appeal of a review of continued or extended health care services, additional services rendered in the course of continued treatment, home health care services following discharge from an inpatient Hospital admission, services in which a Provider requests an immediate review, or any other urgent matter will be handled on an expedited basis.

• The Emergency Benefit also includes Hospital admission when inpatient treatment of your Emergency Medical Condition is Medically Necessary.

• You may discontinue your Hospice enrollment when an acute Hospital admission is necessary, or at any other time.

• Tests must be ordered by a Physician and include diagnostic services ordered before a surgery or Hospital admission.

• Prior authorization is not required for an emergency Hospital admission; See the Emergency Admission Notification section for additional information.

More Definitions of Hospital admission

Hospital admission means an admission to an inpatient facility (not an emergency room or urgent care facility) wherein the patient's length of stay is overnight and typically exceeds 24 hours, and the patient is formally admitted to the facility for inpatient care.

Hospital admission means the period between the time of a Participant's entry into a Hospital as a bed patient and the time of discontinuance of bed-patient care or discharge by the admitting Physician or Professional Other Provider, whichever first occurs. The day of entry, but not the day of discharge or departure, shall be considered in determining the length of a Hospital Admission. If a Participant is admitted to and discharged from a Hospital within a 24-hour period but is confined as a bed patient in a bed accommodation during the period of time he is confined in the Hospital, We shall consider the admission a Hospital Admission. Bed patient means confinement in a bed accommodation located in a portion of a Hospital which is designed, staffed and operated to provide acute, short-term Hospital care on a 24-hour basis; the term does not include confinement in a portion of the Hospital designed, staffed and operated to provide long-term institutional care on a residential basis.

Hospital admission means each separate time a Covered Person is admitted to a Hospital as an Inpatient; except that if a Covered Person is admitted to a Hospital within 90 days after being discharged from a preceding Hospital admission for the same or a related cause, the second admission will be considered a part of the first Hospital admission.

Hospital admission means a single period of hospital confinement or outpatient care for one or more causes.

Hospital admission means each separate time a Covered Person is admitted to a Hospital as an Inpatient. Additional Accident Benefit We will pay the applicable benefit amount shown on the Schedule of Benefits when a Covered Person receives covered services for an Injury sustained in an Accident if:

Hospital admission means admission of an in- sured to a hospital or health care facility as an inpatient for medically necessary and appropriate care and treatment of an illness or injury.

Hospital admission means a single period of hospital confinement or outpa- tient care for one or more causes.