Fierce Healthcare January 12, 2024
Medically complex older patients who received care through a provider’s hospital-at-home program had “low” rates of mortality and readmission, according to recently published research data.
The national review of thousands of Medicare fee-for-service Part A claims was headed by researchers from Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham (MGB), the latter of which has been all-in on growing its own hospital-at-home program. MGB and other proponents of the care model have pointed to the reduced costs and warm reception from patients as reasons for the government to make permanent its Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver, which is set to expire at the end of the year.
Researchers and MGB said the quality outcomes observed in the study — which...
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