Becker's Healthcare May 6, 2024
“Hospital at home” suffers from what economists call a “common agency problem,” three experts on the care model wrote in Health Affairs.
CMS started allowing health systems to apply for waivers to be reimbursed for acute hospital care at home in 2020, greatly expanding the number of hospital-at-home programs.
But for the care model to truly reach its potential, this “common agency problem” must be fixed, according to the May 3 article by Bruce Leff, MD, geriatrician and health services researcher at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, David Levine, MD, clinical director of research and development at Boston-based Mass General Brigham Healthcare at Home, and Albert Siu, MD, geriatrician and health services researcher at New York City-based Icahn...
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