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What The Hospital-at-Home Movement Tells Us About Igniting Innovation in Health Care
As a health care economist specializing in innovation and a management consultant aiding health systems and insurers in technology adoption, we've observed a vexing trend: The expansive private sector of the U.S. healthcare system often outpaces the sluggish public sector, hampered by bureaucracy and political considerations. However, despite its agility, the private sector frequently awaits the initial move by the public sector before embracing innovations, sometimes for prolonged periods. Take the case of "hospital at home," an innovative model swiftly providing acute hospital care in patients' homes. Although hospital at home has gained recent prominence, its widespread adoption could have occurred much earlier if incentives had been properly aligned. Hospital-at-home programs have been under scrutiny since the 1970s, yet health systems and payers hesitated to invest in scaling this concept until the official Covid-19 public health emergency. During this period, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services temporarily allowed Medicare reimbursement for hospital-at-home services.
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In the realm of healthcare economics and management consultancy, we've observed a noteworthy phenomenon: the private sector in U.S. healthcare, marked by agility, often lags behind the public sector in adopting innovations due to bureaucratic and political factors. A prime example is the "hospital at home" model, offering acute care in patients' homes. Despite its recent attention, earlier widespread adoption could have been realized with aligned incentives. Hospital-at-home programs, studied since the 1970s, saw limited investment from health systems and payers until the Covid-19 public health emergency, when temporary Medicare reimbursement was permitted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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