Medicare currently pays for Hospital at Home using a top-down (hospital-centered) payment—the payment is made to hospitals, and the amount is based on Medicare’s payment system for acute inpatient ...

In the past, innovation in healthcare in the acute setting was heavily focused on improvements in procedural interventions or critical care. Recently, however, there has been a shift and developing ...

Buzz around hospital-at-home programs, which allow patients to receive acute-level care at home while shaving down costs, was snowballing even before the pandemic drove unprecedented use of virtual ...

Hospital at home hit hard by government shutdown as 92% of programs face disruptions and daily admissions drop 67% after CMS waiver ends.

In July 2022, Rudie Watzig collapsed. The diagnosis was as serious as it was unexpected—cirrhosis of the liver—and it landed him in the intensive care unit for what he considered a period of sheer ...

Original Medicare pays the complete cost of home health care services for beneficiaries enrolled in both Part A and Part B. You pay no deductible or coinsurance for home health care with Original ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Home care and hospital association representatives in New York state are working together to further enhance collaboration across their respective settings through a Statewide ...

A new £6m urgent care unit has opened at a West Sussex hospital, which will offer patients faster urgent care. The Same Day ...