Health Affairs January 25, 2022
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic and later during the surge of the Omicron variant, hospitals around the country were at risk of running out of inpatient beds. In March 2020 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a Hospitals Without Walls program, giving hospitals broad regulatory flexibility to provide services in locations beyond their facilities. In November 2020 CMS further expanded these efforts by announcing an Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program, allowing authorized hospitals unprecedented flexibilities to treat eligible patients in their homes. The waiver program was developed to support models of at-home hospital care throughout the country. Given the right protocols, more than 60 acute conditions such as asthma, congestive heart failure,...
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