Why Hospital Stays Are Getting Shorter

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 13, 2016

Hospital patients are being discharged earlier than ever before, even though today's patients tend to be older and sicker. Health economist Austin Frakt,who writes about health care in his New York Times column "The New Health Care," talks about his recent article "The Hidden Financial Incentives Behind Your Shorter Hospital Stay", which examines the financial incentives behind shorter hospital stays and how economics have driven these changes. 

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