Home Health Care News October 11, 2021
The proliferation of hospital-at-home models has been one of the major home-based care trends during the COVID-19 crisis, and players on all sides are bullish that that trend will continue after the pandemic subsides.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) “Acute Hospital Care At Home” waiver program has allowed more health systems and home-based care agencies to get involved. But there are participants that believe the waiver program – as it is currently constructed – does not represent the best way forward for the concept.
The Tacoma, Washington-based MultiCare Health System, for instance, has two different hospital-at-home models. One model is through the waiver program, and one is through its own partnership with the in-home medical care...