Will CMS’ Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program become permanent?

The Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has grown to 125 health systems and 289 hospitals in 37 states in less than three years. A number of other health systems and hospitals have secured waivers but haven’t yet implemented a program.

Others haven’t scaled, because they are discovering that managing all the clinical and nonclinical services associated with hospital-level care in the…