{"id":16301,"date":"2020-06-23T10:04:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16301"},"modified":"2020-06-23T10:04:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:04:48","slug":"pandemic-forced-insurers-to-pay-for-in-home-treatments-will-they-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16301","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic Forced Insurers To Pay For In-Home Treatments. Will They Disappear?"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

After seven days as an inpatient for complications related to heart problems, Glenn Shanoski was initially hesitant when doctors suggested in early April that he could cut his hospital stay short and recover at home \u2014 with high-tech 24-hour monitoring and daily visits from medical teams.<\/p>\n

But Shanoski, a 52-year-old electrician in Salem, Massachusetts, decided to give it a try. He\u2019d felt increasingly lonely in a hospital where the COVID pandemic meant no visitors. Also, Boston\u2019s Tufts Medical Center wanted to free up beds for a possible surge of the coronavirus. Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n

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