Healthcare DIVE January 9, 2024
The study could support extending acute hospital care at home, researchers said. A pandemic-era waiver for the programs will expire at the end of the year.
Dive Brief:
- Medicare patients treated in acute hospital-at-home programs had low levels of mortality and rarely needed to return to facilities for care, according to a new study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.
- Researchers found that 0.5% of patients in the study died while receiving acute care in their homes, while 6.2% had to go back to the hospital for at least 24 hours.
- The results could help make the case to continue supporting hospital-level care delivered at home, researchers said. A waiver that expanded the...
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