Florida Hospitals Act Fast to Discharge Gun Victims Especially If Not Insured (kffhealthnews.org)

Because they know how to efficiently bilk Medicaid for those patients, while HMOs will fight over every line-item.

It’s possible that Medicaid has certain rules for a minimum stay before they will pay for rehab after the fact. I think there was a story recently floating around HN specifically talking about some similar requirement in Medicare leading to extra unnecessary (in the physician’s eyes) hospital days and delaying transfer to a proper rehab program, causing worse overall outcomes.