Gauging the Potential of Hospital at Home
There’s been an enormous amount of buzz about hospital-at-home programs (and their companions, skilled nursing facility-at-home, or SNF-at-home, programs), which arose in 2020 when, in response to COVID-19 hospital overcrowding, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) permitted hospitals to be paid for in-home care. When the public health emergency ended this spring, CMS extended the waiver through the end of 2024, allowing the practice to continue…