HealthLeaders Media January 26, 2024
A new law allows Garden State health systems to expand their Hospital at Home programs to include Medicaid patients and those on private insurance
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– The CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home program enables health systems and hospitals to create a care management plan for patients at home who would otherwise be hospitalized. The program is supported by a waiver that allows hospitals to be reimbursed through Medicare for those services.
– New Jersey has passed a state law that expands the program through the state Department of Health to NJ Family Care and Medicaid members and those on private insurance.
– The CMS waiver is due to expire at the end of the year, affecting more than...