Healthcare Innovation December 2, 2025
Randomized trial found that patients transferred quickly to home care had 27% lower cost, were less sedentary, and reported high satisfaction
On Dec. 1, the U.S. House passed a bill that would extend Medicare waivers authorizing the hospital-at-home care program for five years. At the same time, the $50 billion federal Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program is seeking ways to use technology to bolster rural healthcare organizations.
Those two factors could heighten the significance of a new study published in JAMA Network Open that found that hospital-level care at home is feasible for patients living in rural areas with acute conditions who traditionally would have been cared for in a brick-and-mortar hospital.
The study, which included a randomized controlled trial,...
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