Healthcare Finance News April 26, 2024
The Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver is set to expire this year unless Congress acts.
A nurse by training, Tim Ashe, chief clinical officer at Wellsky, knows the challenges that burnout, staffing shortages and bed capacity have on clinicians and the health system.
One way hospitals dealt with staffing shortages and the need for beds during COVID-19 was to use flexibilities allowed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to treat acute care patients at home.
Making the transition to acute hospital care at home was made possible by remote patient monitoring and technology, including Wellsky’s intelligent care platform. The pandemic now officially ended, Ashe sees a continued demand for home-based services.
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