Home Health Care News March 8, 2021
“This really isn’t a new model.” That’s what many home-based care operators and health systems think after they’re asked about the recent hospital-at-home boom in the U.S.
In actuality, hospital-at-home models surfaced in the 1990s. Early adopters included Johns Hopkins University, which pioneered its own concept — and proved that it worked — decades before the current buzz.
In-home hospital care feels new to many in 2021, however, because widespread adoption has been historically thwarted by the lack of a reliable reimbursement mechanism. That was the case until the COVID-19 crisis forced the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to roll out a dedicated waiver last November.
Dr. Bruce Leff, a geriatrician and a health services researcher, began...
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