We searched for studies that compared care delivered by a nurse instead of a doctor in hospital settings. We included studies that examined patient outcomes (death, patient safety events, clinical ...

In November 2020, in response to COVID-19 pandemic-related hospital capacity concerns, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) promulgated the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver (the ...

Across the United States, healthcare systems and hospitals face extraordinary pressure to provide affordable care. As 2022 and 2023 progressed after the pandemic, hospital leaders faced an opaque ...

Hospital affiliations with primary care providers are up about 17% in the last four years and are seeing mixed results, a recent Medscape report found. The “Realities of Primary Care Affiliations ...

A growing number of patients and providers are heralding the benefits of bringing hospital care into private homes — but a lack of permanent federal funding could put such programs at risk. The shift ...

Nurses can safely deliver many services traditionally performed by doctors, with little to no difference in deaths, safety events, or how patients felt about their health, according to a new review, ...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — For many of us, a hospital can be a scary and intimidating place. So there’s a new push among health care providers to let eligible patients recover, outside of the hospital.

Medicare currently pays for Hospital at Home using a top-down (hospital-centered) payment—the payment is made to hospitals, and the amount is based on Medicare’s payment system for acute inpatient ...

A Kaiser Permanente patient receives hospital-level care at home. In July 2022, Rudie Watzig collapsed. The diagnosis was as serious as it was unexpected—cirrhosis of the liver—and it landed him in ...

Patients who receive hospital care at home generally have lower mortality rates than their brick-and-mortar inpatient counterparts, according to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report on ...