The Ideal Patient in Hospital-Speak

  An otherwise healthy young man is brought to the hospital on an emergency basis in the early morning hours, and is found to have appendicitis. A surgeon performs the operation, a successful procedure. The patient is released that same day. The family barely had time to get the word out, and certainly not to gather round.
   A perfect outcome, for patient and medical providers. Hospitals are compensated for such medical events at a "packaged rate." One price coded for each procedure, regardless of the time spent. (At least that's my understanding.) So the quicker the patient is discharged, the less time spent under care, the  more of the allotted funding the hospital gets to keep. I'm sure it goes to defray the costs of those who are not such ideal patients. Young and healthy is the way to go.