The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services gave health systems and providers the ability to take hospital at home as a concept and run with it during the public health emergency.
Those providers did so, and now they’re wondering what comes next, Home Health Care News reports. With regulatory uncertainty moving forward, the hospital-at-home momentum has been put on pause – but not because of patient preference or provider enthusiasm.
“There is over 250 hospitals and 100 health systems across 30-plus states that have now been granted CMS waivers,” Biofourmis CMO and co-founder Maulik Majmudar said on a Moving Health Home webinar Tuesday. “However, it is also clear that a sizable part of the country does not have any offerings today. And more importantly, the number of CMS waivers granted in the last few months has been on a decline.” Read more.
