CMS has approved seven new health systems for a waiver to provide acute hospital care at home.
Here are the health systems newly OK’d to be reimbursed for hospital-at-home care, with their dates of approval and hospitals approved:
1. UW Medicine (Seattle): Nov. 6
— University of Washington Medical Center
— Valley Medical Center (Renton, Wash.)
— Harborview Medical Center
2. Community Health Network (Indianapolis): Nov. 27
— Community Hospital South
— Community Hospital North
— Community Hospital East
— Community Hospital of Anderson and Madison County (Anderson, Ind.)
— Community Howard Regional Health (Kokomo, Ind.)
3. Lakeland (Fla.) Regional Health: Feb. 21
4. RWJBarnabas Health (West Orange, N.J.): March 3
— Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (New Brunswick, N.J.)
5. NewYork-Presbyterian (New York City): March 3
— NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
6. Baptist Health (Jacksonville, Fla.): March 11
— Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville
— Baptist Medical Center Beaches (Jacksonville Beach, Fla.)
— Baptist Medical Center Nassau (Fernandina Beach, Fla.)
7. Valley Health System (Paramus, N.J.): March 17
— The Valley Hospital
