A hospital at home program allows patients to receive inpatient hospital-level care in their homes, reports Nexsen Pruet in this article for JDSupra. It is not home health, case management, chronic disease management, or skilled nursing. Notably, until recently, the use of hospital-level care at home programs has been limited in the United States despite studies that have shown that at home hospital services can be safer, less expensive, and more effective than traditional hospital care.
Why has the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home program led to an explosion of new hospital at home programs?
Until November of 2020, chief among the barriers to the establishment of hospital at home programs was the fact that most federal healthcare programs and commercial insurance did not pay for hospital-level care outside of the hospital premises. Read more.
