Nemours Moves Beyond the Hospital at Home Concept
The Hospital at Home model may not be everybody’s cup of tea, and several health systems and hospitals are finding value in less complex programs that focus on reducing hospital length of stay and improving home-based care.
Tampa General Hospital CMO Offers Healthcare Predictions for 2026
For 2026, the top clinical officer at Tampa General Hospital foresees healthcare trends in care delivery, complexity of patients, AI tool adoption, and financial pressures.
Providers Get Good News on Hospital at Home, Telemedicine Prescription Waivers
Advocates hailed the move as proof that the program, which enables health systems and hospitals to provide hospital-level care at home through platforms that include in-person visits, digital health and virtual care, is proving its value.
Post-Acute Care: Using AI to Move from Fragmentation to Coordination
The systems and people involved in post-acute care all work hard, but they don’t work together well enough. Artificial intelligence is emerging as the first real connective tissue that can close these gaps, not by replacing human care, but by amplifying it.
The (Continuing) Evolution of the Hospital at Home Strategy
The CMS concept had more than its share of skeptics. Some criticized the complexity of the model, and the many rules tied to qualifying for Medicare reimbursement. Others questioned the disruption to patients and their families, amid the idea that providers were looking to recreate the hospital room in the home rather than develop a home-based hospital care program.
Waivers’ End Pushes Healthcare Leaders to Make Tough Decisions on Telehealth, Hospital at Home
Health system and hospital leaders are cutting telehealth and Hospital at Home programs following the expiration of pandemic-era CMS waivers, but that doesn’t necessarily mean those programs are gone for good.
A CMO’s Guide to Offering Home Health Services
After hospitalizations, the benefits of offering home health services beyond reducing readmissions include increasing patient satisfaction and providing services at a lower cost than services at a skilled nursing facility.
The Exec: Telehealth Generates Value for Health Systems and Patients
Telehealth is helping health systems cope with a growing physician shortage across the country in multiple specialties, including neurology, psychiatry, and primary care.
Why the Hospital at Home Concept Won’t Be Going Away
Hospital at Home receives support from a waiver that enabled health systems and hospitals following the CMS model to receive Medicare reimbursement. That waiver is due to expire in September, and while there’s a strong lobbying effort to make it permanent, many hospital executives have said the program has proven its value and will go on regardless.
Why Are Home Health Agencies Ditching Telehealth?
Conducted between 2023 and 2024 of roughly 260 home health agencies, the study places blame for the drop-off on a lack of Medicare reimbursement, and raises questions about whether home-based care programs can support telehealth at a time when health systems and hospitals are moving more services to the home.