Home Health Care News January 3, 2025
Since launching five years ago, a partnership among Contessa, Highmark Health and Allegheny Health Network (AHN) has expanded and started to prove out the value–to patients, clinicians and payers–of delivering more acute care in the home.
Highmark, AHN and Contessa in 2020 announced a partnership to launch a home-based acute care model for Highmark health plan members. Since then, the model has adapted to offer hospitalized patients an alternative to skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities following their discharge. This alternative is rehabilitation conducted at home.
“We had to determine not just what an ideal model looked like or what the future might hold, but also what physicians want and how they prefer to work, even if they were unaware of...
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