{"id":24628,"date":"2025-07-11T10:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24628"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:08:16","slug":"lawmakers-introduce-5-year-hospital-at-home-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24628","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers introduce 5-year hospital-at-home extension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Giles Bruce for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers has introduced a bill that would extend the CMS waiver to reimburse hospital-at-home programs by five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 200 hospitals across 34 states provide acute hospital care at home under a CMS waiver introduced during the pandemic. But that measure is set to expire Sept. 30. Health systems leaders have told Becker\u2019s that the regulatory uncertainty is stifling the care model from reaching its full potential.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/healthcare-information-technology\/innovation\/lawmakers-introduce-5-year-hospital-at-home-extension\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/healthcare-information-technology\/innovation\/lawmakers-introduce-5-year-hospital-at-home-extension\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" class=\"wp-image-11016\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/house.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/house.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/house-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Giles Bruce for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers has introduced a bill that would extend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20,5,10,6],"tags":[80,238,1385,61,94],"class_list":["post-24628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-redesign","category-home-health-services","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general","tag-cms","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-hospital-at-home-program","tag-medicare","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24629,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24628\/revisions\/24629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}