Hospitalogy March 27, 2025
Dispatch-Medically Home Hospital-at-Home Merger: DispatchHealth and Medically Home announce a merger aiming to create the nation’s largest provider of hospital-level care at home, expanding acute care access outside traditional hospital settings. Both of these firms, at the height of the pandemic, had each raised hundreds of millions of dollars, and the merger speaks to what I imagine is the growth curve of the hospital-at-home program, consolidating to create a more comprehensive platform to serve HaH and any other at-home programs, such as SNF@Home, and well, survive in 2025. Hospital-at-home in general is in a bit of flux, as CMS extended the program’s waiver thru March 31, and since then, CMS extended the waiver thru September. Either way, not a great...