The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver has, no doubt, ushered in a new era for hospital at home. But with calls to end the public health emergency (PHE), it is hanging in the balance.
Gone are the days when the hospital-at-home model was considered a niche care service. Since the launch of the waiver, there have been 92 health systems and 204 hospitals in 34 states approved for Acute Hospital Care at Home, according to CMS.
“There are a number of programs that have been launched, and the risk is that all of these waivers are tied to the public health emergency,” Dr. Stephen Parodi, associate executive director for The Permanente Medical Group, told Home Health Care News. “With COVID waning, … we expect that the public health emergency will likely expire sometime this year. There is a need, from a regulatory standpoint, to avoid these programs ending if the waiver goes away.”
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