As a health care economist who studies innovation, and as a management consultant who helps health systems and insurers adopt new technologies, we have had a ringside seat to a frustrating phenomenon: ...

Hospitals that have adopted the Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) 'hospital-at-home' program, which serves as an alternative to admission to brick-and-mortar facilities, are concentrated in large ...

The escalating costs of traditional hospital care have become a pressing concern for both healthcare systems and patients. In the United States, a typical three-day hospital stay can easily total more ...

Not-for-profit hospitals and health systems are slowly recovering from their worst year financially in 2022. But that nascent financial recovery is now under threat if federal lawmakers don't act to ...

The Hospital-at-Home (HaH) model under Medicare lets patients receive hospital-level care at home instead of a traditional, brick-and-mortar hospital. But when the waiver funding the program expired ...

New day treatment program serves patients transitioning from inpatient care or those requiring more intensive support than traditional outpatient services. The program operates from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.