The Authors Reply I, "patient financial responsibility for observation care" and "observation versus inpatient hospitalization: What do medicare beneficiaries pay?"
1 Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.
2 Director of Government Relations, Society of Hospital Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
3 Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
4 Johns Hopkins Health System, Department of Utilization/Clinical Resource Management, and Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.