At-home heart failure care can be a viable alternative for patients getting heart failure care, in terms of safety and quality. Patients with heart failure who received advanced medical care at home had similar post-discharge outcomes to the care found within brick-and-mortar hospitals, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open. Researchers found that heart failure patients treated at home had no significant differences […]
At the beginning of every year, Home Health Care News issues a list of the trends we believe will define the industry. Often, these predictions seem almost inevitable early in the year, only for events to unfold that completely change the trajectory of a specific trend before the frost melts from the trees. Other predictions […]
Hospital-at-home care has been presented as a more desirable and affordable alternative to long facility stays – and new research shows that the care model reduces in-hospital mortality and emergency department visits (ED) in the 30 days following discharge. However, there was no significant difference in hospital admissions between hospital-at-home care and inpatient care, according […]
MedArrive buys assets from Inbound Health after company’s close In-home care delivery technology company MedArrive has acquired assets from now-closed hospital-at-home enablement company Inbound Health. Alongside the news of the acquisition, the company announced that Ophir Lotan, a veteran of health-tech companies, would step in as its CEO. “Healthcare is rapidly moving toward home care […]
As part of their joint venture, DispatchHealth and Saint Francis Health System have launched a new hospital-at-home program. The model is designed to either substitute an entire hospital stay or part of a hospital stay, allowing patients to recover in their own home. Both sides of the venture aim to expand the program to provide […]
On Tuesday, Congress and President Donald Trump passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026, reopening the government after it partially shut down for three days, pausing two measures important to the home-based care community. The bill, passed following a political backlash to funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), funds most of the government through Sept. […]
Just months after the federal government shut down for a record 43 days, a partial shutdown is becoming increasingly likely, threatening vital Medicare flexibilities and the hospital-at-home waiver program. If lawmakers fail to pass the proposed funding package, both these flexibilities, enacted by the Trump administration in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, would expire at […]
Medicare telehealth flexibilities and the Acute Hospital at Home waiver program – critical programs for the home health industry kept alive by short-term extensions – received reason for hope on Tuesday when lawmakers proposed a three-year funding package that would include provisions for these programs. The $1.2 trillion, three-bill bipartisan funding package comes ahead of […]
In 2025, Medicare-certified home health providers faced dramatic uncertainty. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed the largest-ever cut to the Medicare home health payment rate, prompting an outcry from providers, workers and patients, with the ultimate result being a much less painful final rate cut. While recovering from an anxiety-inducing 2025, home […]
New research shows that hospital-level care is possible for adults living in rural settings – and that people receiving acute care in the home are more physically active than those in brick-and-mortar hospital care. Rural patients also strongly prefer receiving acute care at home, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open, though the […]
