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Why Hospital at Home is Critical for American Healthcare
In most of American healthcare, finding consensus is nearly impossible. Democrats and Republicans rarely agree on policy. Hospitals and insurers often clash. Physicians and administrators see issues from different angles. But there’s one program that has managed to unite nearly everyone: Hospital at Home.
In July 2025, Congressman Vern Buchanan, Chair of the Health Subcommittee on Ways and Means, introduced the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act (H.R. 4950) alongside Representatives Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) and Dwight Evans (D-Pa.), with companion legislation (S. 2346) introduced in the Senate by Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) The bipartisan legislation, currently pending in committee, aims to extend Hospital at Home programs for an additional five years—but there’s urgency behind this push. Without congressional action, the waivers enabling these programs are set to expire on September 30, 2025, as indicated in the most recent temporary extension legislation.
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HaH has shown compelling clinical benefits: patients treated at home tend to have fewer readmissions, reduced medication errors, and lower rates of hospital-acquired complications compared with traditional inpatient care.
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