Home Health Care News February 20, 2025
Audrie Martin

We’re now about one month away from the end of the hospital-at-home waiver that has been keeping the program alive.

With the March 31 deadline fast approaching, the push to further extend the program is picking up steam. Earlier this month, in-home care advocacy group Moving Health Home sent a letter to Congress urging the inclusion of a five-year extension for the waiver in the March government funding package. Nearly 100 stakeholders signed the letter, including prominent names like AARP, BrightStar Care, Optum, the Home Care Association of America, DispatchHealth and Medically Home.

These groups and other advocates for hospital-at-home have a lot of evidence to point to, regarding the program’s benefits for cost efficiency and patient outcomes. We’ve published...

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