Told to leave the hospital too soon?
For Medicare patients, a planned discharge can be reviewed, free, by an independent government contractor, and the deadline is short. This free guide covers the call, the status question, and the bills that follow the stay.
You shouldn’t have to manage a hospital discharge and the bills that follow it at the same time.
Your free help
While you’re still in the hospital
Understand the discharge notice, and the free review right printed on it.
Request the free QIO review if you need it, with the call fully prepared.
Ask about your inpatient-or-observation status, because two identical beds can sit in different billing worlds.
After you leave
Track the bills the stay produces, often months of them.
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What PatientStand does differently
A person reads every line, not software.
One flat fee, never by the hour.
Plain language, answers within 48 hours.
Checked against the hospital's own published prices.
When you don't want to figure it out yourself
You can do all of this yourself. Or you can hand the hard part to us: we work out what is happening, what matters, and what to send, and prepare it for you to review and send in your own name.
The guide gets you this far
You know how to request the free review, and how to track the bills that follow the stay.
PatientStand takes it from here
The review is free and government-run, and no one should pay anyone for it. Where we help is afterward: we bring the bills from the stay together, work out what needs attention and prepare what needs sending, so one hospital stay doesn’t become months of separate billing problems.
One hospital stay shouldn’t become months of billing problems.
PatientStand brings the bills together and works out what needs attention.
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Where to go from here
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This guide is general guidance and information only, not advice about your situation. Patient Stand prepares documents you review, sign, and send yourself.