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More than 140 healthcare organizations, including more than 50 health systems, have sent a letter to Congress urging inclusion of a five-year extension of the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCaH) ...

A long list of healthcare stakeholders have signed a letter urging strong support for the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver program in upcoming government funding decisions. Writing to Congress this ...

Hospital-at-home programs gained significant traction during the COVID-19 era, spurred by CMS’ 2020 waiver program to ease hospital capacity. What began as an emergency measure has since evolved into ...

Not long after CareSource announced it is expanding into Massachusetts, the Dayton-based health insurer was awarded a contract to begin serving Medicaid managed care members in Nevada next year.

The stopgap funding bill passed Tuesday by the House included a provision to extend the CMS "Hospital-at-Home" (H@H) waiver program. The program, which currently expires on March 31, allows hospitals ...

The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...

The hospital-at-home program has received bipartisan support in Congress. UMass Memorial Health has 20 patients in its hospital-at-home program. UMass Memorial Medical Center has treated 3,900 ...