Home Health Care News October 27, 2025
Despite having bipartisan support, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acute Hospital Care At Home waiver program has been a casualty of the ongoing government shutdown.
However, hospital-at-home operators can’t afford to wait and see what happens. They must remain and push for waiver funding, according to Ray Quintero, managing partner at Washington, D.C.-based health care policy consulting firm Healthsperien.
As a result of the shutdown and the waiver lapsing, CMS issued guidance mandating that all patients be discharged and returned to hospitals.
“That’s unfortunate, of course, it’s a disruption in care,” Quintero said at the Hospital at Home Users Group annual meeting earlier this month. “It also does not provide any sort of relief, or any...
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