Becker's Healthcare July 11, 2024
As a leader of one of the nation’s largest home hospitals, I urge Congress to pass, and the president to sign, a five-year extension of the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver before it expires at the end of this year. Failure to do so could create a major disruption for the thousands of patients receiving this care and for the hundreds of home hospitals nationwide.
Patients in home hospital receive hospital-level care in the comfort of their own homes. The waiver was issued during the pandemic because CMS recognized that traditional brick-and-mortar hospitals had limited bed capacity and patients were either too scared to come to the hospital to get treatment or eager to leave after being admitted in...
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