Posted Saturday, March 12, 2022
A bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives have introduced the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act. The bill would allow for the hospital-level care at home that was enacted during the pandemic to continue for two years after the public health emergency ends.
“Acute hospital care at home waiver programs are providing high quality care to Medicare patients in their homes,” a group of providers wrote to lawmakers in a letter supporting the bill. “Studies of hospital-at-home programs regularly show significant reductions in 30-day readmissions, post-discharge emergency department visits and skilled nursing facility utilization.”
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