Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act

This bill keeps Medicare’s “hospital care at home” option going and orders a deep look at how it’s working. The study must compare care at home with regular hospital care on safety, quality, costs, and who gets access. It also looks at things like readmissions, deaths, infections, length of stay, nurse staffing, when patients are moved between home and hospital, what conditions are treated, how much in-person vs. virtual care is used, caregiver involvement, and patient and caregiver experience. The report to Congress is due by September 30, 2028 .

Key points:

• Extends Medicare’s ability to let hospitals deliver full hospital-level care in a patient’s home .
• Requires the Health and Human Services Secretary to study results across quality, outcomes, costs, intensity of services, and equity, and to account for selection bias in the data. The report is due by September 30, 2028 .

Overall, this aims to keep at-home hospital care available while gathering solid evidence on how it performs for patients, caregivers, and hospitals .