Hospital at Home: Medicare report shows how the experiment is going
Oct. 3, 2024
Health Tech Correspondent
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This week Medicare regulators released a 79-page report on a pandemic-era home hospital program that allowed approved health systems to deliver inpatient care in people’s homes. Over 300 hospitals enrolled in the program and the goal was to expand capacity at a time when people feared hospitals would be overrun. But many view the programs as a crucial innovation that could help the health care system meet the needs of an aging population.
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It’s A LOT of information, so I asked Lee Fleisher, who was chief medical officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services when the program was created to help me make sense of it all.
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