Home Health Care News December 23, 2024
Joyce Famakinwa

The Acute Hospital Care at Home program has received another extension.

On Saturday, President Biden signed a spending bill that extended the hospital-at-home waiver program to March 31, 2025. The bill also includes an extension for telehealth flexibilities.

“While the hospital at home community was hoping for a 5-year extension to be passed, the extension of the Acute Hospital at Home waiver through the end of March helps patients and their caregivers who need hospital at home care, and helps programs avoid having to shut down programs that require substantial effort to develop and implement,” Dr. Bruce Leff, a professor of medicine and director of the center for transformative geriatric research at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, told Home...

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