Consequently, hospitals may be utilizing observation status more frequently in response to audits and fear of a lengthy and costly appeals process that may result in loss of the ability to rebill an inpatient claim as observation if the process extends beyond 12 months after patient discharge.
Modar Alaoui. Modar Alaoui is a Moroccan-American serial entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, California in the United States. He is mostly known for his work in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision-based face analytics and emotion recognition technologies.
LPAR. (L ogical PAR tition) A logical segmentation of a mainframe's memory and other resources that allows it to run its own copy of the operating system and associated applications.LPARs are caused by special hardware circuits and allow multiple system images to run in one machine.DF was the first to provide in hardware the equivalent of IBM's VM operating system, which supports multiple system images in software. Interestingly, an LPAR can host VM, which itself can host multiple operating systems. See PR/SM and virtual machine.