Home Health Care News November 14, 2021
The federal government and other private stakeholders play an important role in addressing the unique challenges of accelerating hospital-at-home delivery.
That’s according to a group of health care experts who spoke on the future of hospital-at-home models during a Friday webinar hosted by the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
“Medicare has a central role to play. … We want to advance health equity, expand access to care, drive high-quality, person-centered care, and promote affordability and sustainability,” Dr. Meena Seshamani, deputy administrator and director at the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said during the webinar.
Certainly, one major example of this is CMS’s “Acute Hospital Care at Home” program, which gives eligible...