Home Health Care News November 22, 2023
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver was a major boost for organizations hoping to implement or expand hospital-at-home programs.
As of Nov. 21 2023, 305 hospitals and 129 systems in 37 states have been approved to provide hospital-at-home care under the CMS waiver program.
Still, CMS’ waiver program was never meant to be permanent. With this in mind, some are wondering if state Medicaid agencies could be a way to further the hospital-at-home movement.
“For hospital at home to really scale, having a robust multi-payer environment that includes Medicare, Medicaid, commercial insurers and [Medicare Advantage] is really going to be necessary,” Dr. Bruce Leff, a professor of medicine and director of...
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