Hospital-at-home alternatives score with some providers

Hospital-at-home alternatives score with some providers
Modern Healthcare; by Diane Eastabrook; 1/28/25
Providers are bypassing Medicare requirements to set up scaled-down hospital-at-home programs they say save money by reducing hospitalizations. Ochsner Health, Los Angeles General Medical Center and Tru PACE in Colorado are among those offering home-based hospital programs that are less expensive and quicker to set up than the Acute Hospital Care at Home program, which has an uncertain future. Providers say the programs free up hospital beds for sicker patients and save money by keeping some patients in risk-based care plans out of the hospital. However, most of the in-home hospital programs don’t have the rigorous guardrails mandated in the Medicare waiver program.