The Hospital-at-Home (HaH) model under Medicare lets patients receive hospital-level care at home instead of a traditional, brick-and-mortar hospital. But when the waiver funding the program expired ...

Not-for-profit hospitals and health systems are slowly recovering from their worst year financially in 2022. But that nascent financial recovery is now under threat if federal lawmakers don't act to ...

A framework centered around cost, quality, and equity is essential to define the value of hospital-at-home programs. On November 25, 2020, CMS announced the creation of an Acute Hospital Care at Home ...

Many postoperative readmissions are amenable to diversion to a hospital at home program for surgical patients, representing an opportunity to generate revenue and improve patient experience.

As a health care economist who studies innovation, and as a management consultant who helps health systems and insurers adopt new technologies, we have had a ringside seat to a frustrating phenomenon: ...

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There’s no place like home — and now hospitals are starting to recognize that as well. For generations, we’ve been told that the best place to be when we are sick is in the hospital. But now, ...

The House of Representatives unanimously voted to pass a bill Monday that extends the Medicare hospital at home program for five years. Hospital at home providers have been mired in uncertainty for ...

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During one of our (Zain’s) last year of medical school, I took care of a 70-year-old woman who was admitted for a mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbation. She was requiring slightly ...