Home Health Care News May 23, 2024
Hospital-at-home care has a chance to become a mainstay in the larger home-based care ecosystem. As its stakeholders aim to get it there, there are a few factors that need to be considered.
Firstly, without payment, there is no hospital-at-home model. Early pioneers of the model in the U.S. know that all too well.
But Medicare providing adequate payment for hospital-at-home care during the public health emergency (PHE) was a major first step to get other payers to follow. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver has already been extended through 2024 – it was initially supposed to expire at the end of the PHE – and now is up for another extension.
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