Healthcare Finance News November 21, 2023
The initiative, extended through 2024, includes waivers and flexibilities for routine services, telehealth and physical home requirements.
Patients who received care under the pandemic’s Acute Hospital Care at Home program had a low mortality rate and minimal complications related to escalations back to the brick-and-mortar hospital, according to a CMS research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Health Forum.
During the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services granted waivers for hospitals for acute level care in patients’ homes. The concept was not new. Johns Hopkins has been practicing Hospital at Home at least since 2002, and had trademarked the name.
But the pandemic necessitated the use of acute services to be...