As Congress Floats AHCAH Extension, Hospital And Medicaid Participation At Stake

As Congress weighs the future of CMS’ Acute Hospital Care at Home Program (AHCAH), advocates are urging lawmakers to authorize a five-year extension, instead of another two-year plan, to bolster currently limited hospital and Medicaid participation. Advocates say CMS guidance, practitioner flexibilities and heightened commercial coverage of hospital-at-home programs would also further support AHCAH participation. A key lobbyist previously told Inside Health Policy a five-year extension of AHCAH is more likely to appear in an end-of-year legislative package than...