11.   Also, can a nursing home discharge a patient to the home of a family member who is not the spouse or legal guardian?

12.   For example, discharging a patient from the hospital a few days earlier might save an insurer thousands of dollars in hospital costs.

13.   Hospitals have financial incentives to discharge patients as quickly as possible.

14.   Hospitals moved to trim costs by discharging patients earlier.

15.   Ibid. Likewise, in Blum v. Yaretsky, supra, we held that the decisions of a regulated hospital to discharge its patients were not subject to constitutional challenge.

16.   In some cases, insurers have adopted guidelines urging doctors to discharge mastectomy patients without overnight stays, according to health care experts.

17.   Insurers were howling to get patients discharged swiftly, but the house staff wanted to learn.

18.   It says some hospitals boost their Medicare reimbursement by discharging patients early into skilled nursing facilities owned by them.

19.   Maimonides Medical Center, which treated Chapman during his last hospitalization, said it never discharged patients who were a threat.

20.   Many hospitals are trying to operate more efficiently, discharging patients more quickly when possible.