Since Sept. 1, 2021, the Acute Hospital Care at Home (Acute HAH) program has been available to select North Carolina hospitals as a tool to manage the COVID-19 surge. The program has been available to hospitals that have been granted a waiver from CMS. The Acute HAH program is an expansion of the CMS Hospital Without Walls initiative as a part of a comprehensive effort to increase hospital capacity, maximize resources and combat COVID-19 to keep Americans safe. The program creates additional flexibility that allows for certain health care services to be provided outside of a traditional hospital setting and within a patient’s home.
Originally scheduled to sunset on Dec. 31,2021, NC Medicaid extended the Hospital at Home program through March 31, 2022, due to the Omicron surge. The Hospital at Home program for NC Medicaid (both Medicaid Direct and Medicaid Managed Care) will sunset on March 31, 2022. Please see Special Bulletin COVID-19 #202 for more details on the Hospital at Home program for NC Medicaid.
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