Hospital's New message for Patients: Stay Home

Hospital's New message for Patients: Stay Home

Hospital executives think they can more than make up the revenue by shifting their exam and recovery rooms to patients’ homes. And Congress is urging them on, with legislation in the works to help hospitals expand their at-home offerings and to allow Medicare to continue paying for telehealth after lawmakers first granted temporary permission after Covid struck.The appeal to lawmakers is potential savings if remote care proves more efficient, but hospitals also see financial advantage.Hospital leaders believe spinning up new lines of business and making health systems more efficient have the potential to buoy a sector that is still contending with the financial fallout from the pandemic — now without the federal emergency funding that blunted Covid’s impact. The American Hospital Association points to costs rising at the same time the sector operated in the red every month of 2022. Margins have improved since, but not enough for hospital leaders to take comfort in the status quo.

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The leaders of the movement to remote care, as one would expect, are the hospitals with the financial wherewithal to pursue it.That could forebode an even bigger split between the haves and have-nots.The well-heeled systems are also thinking about how they can sell their innovations, such as proprietary artificial intelligence products, to other hospitals and health care providers.It all adds up to what could be a major transformation in the way the hospital business works — with implications for patient comfort, quality of care and cost.In underserved areas, care options are shrinking. Rural hospitals have cut services that they see as unsustainable, even if they’re important to patients in the area.Congress, in an effort to preserve care in rural areas, created a new Medicare payment designation for rural hospitals that would allow facilities to eliminate inpatient services to keep emergency rooms open.


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