Hospital Discharges Rise at Lucrative Times for The Wall Street Journal
"A Kindred Healthcare Inc. hospital in Houston discharged 79-year-old Ronald Beard to a nursing home after 23 days of treatment for complications of knee surgery.
The timing of his release didn’t appear to correspond with any improvement in his condition, according to family members. But it did boost how much money the hospital got." - WSJ
I photographed the widow of Ronald Beard, Barbara, with a sizable stack of paperwork related to her husband's hospitalization and resulting conflict with Medicare. The story can be read here.
Barbara Beard by a stack of paperwork connected to her dispute with medical providers Feb. 5, 2014 in Katy, TX. Beard's husband was discharged from a long-term hospital after a 23 day stay to rehab following a botched knee surgery, and later died.