{"id":25260,"date":"2025-12-09T09:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25260"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:18:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:18:47","slug":"acute-hospital-care-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25260","title":{"rendered":"Acute Hospital Care at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to a federal report, 366 hospitals nationwide participated in the Acute Hospital Care at Home program, which allows patients who would otherwise be hospitalized to receive care at home with a combination of healthcare providers and medical technology. \u00a0During the government shutdown, it forced a pause in the Medicare program, and it may face another in January if budget negotiations break down again. H.R. 4313, the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives and is awaiting consideration by the Senate, would extend the program until 2030. \u00a0Tim Henderson, writing for Stateline, explains why this bill is needed. Read Mr. Henderson\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/stateline.org\/2025\/12\/08\/hospital-at-home-program-extended-by-us-house-awaits-senate-consideration\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/stateline.org\/2025\/12\/08\/hospital-at-home-program-extended-by-us-house-awaits-senate-consideration\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"96\" class=\"wp-image-15015\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized.jpg 583w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dreamstime_m_80061013legislation-law-bill-congress-senate-act-resized-300x192.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>According to a federal report, 366 hospitals nationwide participated in the Acute Hospital Care at Home program, which allows patients<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,10,6],"tags":[1973,80,1974,238,61,94],"class_list":["post-25260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general","tag-acute-hospital-care-at-home","tag-cms","tag-h-r-4313","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medicare","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25260","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=25260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25261,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25260\/revisions\/25261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}