Oliver Wyman February 24, 2025
Care at Home is becoming a viable alternative for low-cost, high-quality care. We interviewed hospital leaders and payers to understand the current landscape.
Care delivery has been steadily moving away from hospital campuses toward more convenient, cost-effective settings. Ambulatory surgery centers and retail clinics were the early trailblazers, proving that high-quality care can be delivered outside the four walls of a hospital. Virtual care followed. Care at Home (C@H) is the next phase of this evolution.
With hospital bed capacity stretched thin and expected to further deteriorate, the cost of new facility construction soaring, and an urgent need to improve outcomes and reduce the cost of care, healthcare leaders are seeing C@H as a long-term solution. Historically viewed as home...