Congress Temporarily Extends Medicare Telehealth Coverage in Funding Package

The home is no longer only a center of chronic disease management; it is also a focus for potentially acute and post-acute care. It also represents the site of care preference for most patients and eliminates the costly facility fees seen with visits to major health systems.

It was not too long ago when only a handful of U.S. health systems invested in hospital-at-home programs, with Mount Sinai and Johns Hopkins Medicine being two of the very early adopters.

On average, prices for commercial plans were between $660 and $707 more expensive than with MA.