As the healthcare industry faces increasing regulatory changes, margin pressures, and rising costs, companies like CVS Health and Humana are feeling the squeeze. Experts emphasize the need for value optimization, with low-cost care settings showing the most potential for success. Inbound Health and Allina Health are leading the way with their innovative Elevated Care at Home (ECH) program. Developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ECH offers an alternative to traditional hospital stays and post-acute care services, improving outcomes while addressing capacity and cost challenges. Together, Inbound Health and Allina Health are transforming transitional care to enhance both quality and affordability.
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Improving Patient Outcomes with Acute Hospital Care at Home
Preliminary Analysis of Hospital Care at Home Performance Outcomes
This preliminary analysis examines performance outcomes in patients discharged to Inbound Health’s Hospital Care at Home program, which meets CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home requirements, within a Minneapolis-based health system.
Patients in Inbound’s program had a lower 30 day readmission rate compared to matched patients based on severity of illness. Also, the mean length of inpatient stay was shorter with the Inbound Health cohort of patients.
We improved care and created greater efficiency for our patients, families, and healthcare systems.
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Advanced Care-at-Home Programs Drive Value for Heart Failure Patients
Authors: Mary Oberst MSC, Camilla Dziura MHA, Seth Glickman, M.D., MBA,
Rachel Rivard, M.D., Kimberly Hedger, Emily Downing, M.D.
Preventable heart failure readmissions pose a significant financial challenge to hospitals and health systems. Reducing 30-day heart failure readmissions optimizes reimbursement for hospitals that participate in CMS value-based programs, such as the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), which incentivizes processes of care that decrease preventable events and thereby reduce overall readmission rates.
Advanced care-at-home programs that serve as alternatives to extended hospitalization and institutional post- acute care offer an innovative and effective solution for hospitals seeking to optimize patient outcomes and reduce avoidable readmissions, resulting in substantial financial gains.
In implementing Inbound Health’s novel in-home care model that supports early hospital discharge and provides an alternative to institutional post-acute care, Allina Health was able to reduce 30-day readmissions in their heart failure population by 30% over a 2.8-year period, generating significant cost- savings for the health system.