Medicare, part a, would not pay for her stay because she had not been an inpatient in an acute Care Hospital for three days. She asked how that could possibly be true. After all, she had been in the hospital for 13 days. It turned out that the hospital had called her an out patient for all 13 days. The wisconsin woman had no way of knowing she was an outpatient in observation status. She was in a bed in the hospital for 13 nights. She had diagnostic tests, received physician and nursing care, medications, treatment, food, a wristband. Her care was indistinguishable from the medically necessary care she would have been given if she were formally interviewed. Even the patients and nurses providing care to her didnt know whether she was an inpatient or an outpatient. And the hospital was not required by cms rules to inform her that she was an outpatient or the consequences of that status. But solely because she was called an outpatient in observation status, medicare, part a, did not pay
Thunderstorms with lightning and we are checking with meteorologist mike nicco to see what is happening. And where. Lightning over San Francisco. Just a few minutes ago. We captured this from pier 30. It is over the ball park as we look back toward at t park. It looks like it hit the score board. Impressive looking lightning. Thank you for your tweets, everyone. We call this ground truths. You can see near taylor boulevard moving away from walnut creek to lafayette on 24 and mt. Diablo boulevard is where the impressive radar is. It is headed to the north at 30 Miles Per Hour moving through Pleasant Hill and could hit concord and 15 minutes it will hit 242. There could be the possibility of lightning. There could be big drops. Ed storm just passed through Half Moon Bay and move through the Higher Elevation headed to skyline boulevard and burlingame and possibly san bruno. I will adjust the track and move it to the north. We can get a new update. South San Francisco is less than ten minu
Story of adult twin sons found locked in a basement. Im derek mcginty. And im lesli foster. Parents janice and john land face imprisonment and abuse charges in Montgomery County after police found their adult sons with autism locked in the basement of their rockville home. Mola lenghi is in that neighborhood tonight and joins us to tell us more about why police went to the home in the first place. Reporter the home youre talking about is this house here behind me where police say they found the two 22yearold, twins, locked in the basement against their own will in what they describe as deplorable conditions by their very own parents. The house is now condemned. The twins are being evaluated. The parents are out on bond. This began early thursday morning when Montgomery County police came to serve a warrant for an unrelated incident. The States Attorneys Office in Montgomery County says as officers walked through the house, they stumbled upon a door in the basement bolted shut from the
Obviously the Afghan People have produced if we keep saying we want to open the door for people. We cant walk through that door. Theyve risked their lives and i dont know how many Afghan Soldiers have lost their lives, huge numbers have lost their lives in this fight and i think that on our side of the relationship could be the most important thing to happen because there would be a great willingness to be a true partner in afghanistan which is so important. I think we have seen today an example of this sound steady leadership showing. Hes been a supporter of the usaid and when you step down from the responsibilities he will be sorely missed on a range of issues. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] on a related program note we will be covering the discussion with the pakistani ambassador to the u. S. Later on. Look on cspan. Org for coverage on broadcast in
Deadly mud slide in southwest china. At least 13 people died in mondays slide. Days of pouring rain caused that slide and other ones which have blocked roads for the outside rescue crews trying to get n. The surviving victims badly need relief and supplies. Firefighters in North Central Washington State are trying to get the upper hand on the largest wildfire in their history. The carlton complexifier has burned hundreds of complex fire has burned hundreds of homes and acres so hundreds to leave their homes. Heres howard about our escalating temperatures. We were in the mid s on yesterday. Mid80s yesterday. We could be in the mid90s here today. The visibilities have improved in fredricksburg, they were threequarters now four, we have fog in luray. Cup letterland cumberland socked in at zero. Temps upper 60s to mid70s. Were going to 9 today with just 89 today with spotty showers and storms this afternoon. On the inbound side of i66 just got word of a crash involving a tractortrailer. It