Home Health Care News June 23, 2021
The explosion of hospital-at-home programs in the U.S. is partly thanks to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) “Acute Hospital Care at Home” waiver, which will last as long as the public health emergency (PHE) is active.
And It’s not shocking that health systems, hospitals and home-based care agencies helping to facilitate hospital-level care at home are taking advantage of the waiver. What’s more interesting at this point is that, as COVID-19 subsides and the PHE wanes, those same players continue to create and invest in their own hospital-at-home programs.
A very likely reason for that is a belief among health care executives that the waiver will continue beyond the PHE, in some capacity.
Take Norfolk, Virginia-based Sentara...
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