The ‘Hospital-at-home’ program was adopted from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) which was established in November 2020 allows hospitals to deliver care to patients in their own homes instead of traditional admission in hospital in case of acute illness.

In the cross-sectional analysis of short-term acute care hospitals in the United States, the study compared hospitals that applied waivers between November 2022 and December 2022 (pre-extension hospitals) and those after that (post-extension hospitals).

Study found that adoption of waiver remained concentrated in urban, not-for-profit and academic hospitals.

Study implicated that if CMS wants to expand the reach of Hospital-at-Home, then work must be done to ensure and incorporate rural and non-teaching hospitals.

It indicates that these types of hospitals are not seeking to create these programs on their own, because of resources involved in it to sustain their operation.