Over 250 hospitals and health systems are seeking to build or expand their hospital-level care at home, motivated largely by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, created during the COVID-19 pandemic to address hospital capacity issues, which allows for parity in Medicare reimbursement [1]. Recent extension of CMS reimbursement for hospital at home (HaH) through 2024 has further fueled interest and investment in HaH program development [2]. The HaH model in the United States was created in the 1990s and can provide care for patients with a growing range of acute medical conditions, including heart failure (HF) exacerbations, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
