Politico May 11, 2024
Daniel Payne

Health systems are trying to move more of the work they do to your house.

Hospitals want you to visit them less often.

Empowered by Washington and armed with Covid-inspired health innovations, health executives are seeking to increasingly move care outside of the hospital — despite the seeming risk to their bottom line.

Hospital executives think they can more than make up the revenue by shifting their exam and recovery rooms to patients’ homes. And Congress is urging them on, with legislation in the works to help hospitals expand their at-home offerings and to allow Medicare to continue paying for telehealth after lawmakers first granted temporary permission after Covid struck.

The appeal to lawmakers is potential savings if remote care...

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Topics: Congress / White House, Digital Health, Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Home, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology, Telehealth
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