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with the loss of their hospital privileges. in fact, he sued the hospital about this issue, and the hospital settled for an undisclosed amount in 2019. why would the hospital care about that? there are financial reasons. length of stay is central to their business. reporter: length of stay is critical because when insurance runs out, hospitals have to pick up the tab. so moving patients home or to hospice opens up a paying bedfaster. i met with administrative personnel, and they said regardless of the reasons i have to find a way to lower these numbers. reporter: do you think they really didn t want to hear about exceptions? they would ask me why but didn t seem to be interested in the real reasons. reporter: the 26 other physicians we spoke with agreed. to coerce somebody, to force somebody to do something, you re breaking many boundaries and threatening many lives. and that s what i would have strong objection to. reporter: it is critical, he says, that families and
Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital s average length of stay for sepsis patients was 0.8 days shorter than in 2022 thanks to an early warning sepsis initiative.