Hospital at home program is waiting on Congress, but this New Jersey hospital isn’t

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Hospital at home creeps towards commercial

New Jersey-based Hackensack Meridian Health this week announced it will gradually expand its hospital at home program from three of its larger facilitates, to its entire system of 18 hospitals, illustrating growing momentum behind home-based care in the wake of the pandemic.

Importantly, Hackensack Meridian said it’s treating patients on commercial insurance in addition to those on Medicare. The expansion comes as Congress has yet to make permanent the flexibility that enabled hospital at home to flourish.

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