The Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act is a bill in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives that would enable hospitals to extend successful âÂÂHospital at Homeâ programs for an additional five years.
This bill would extend the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCaH) program through 2030. It also directs the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a study on the program's efficacy.
On July 10, 2025, Senators Raphael Warnock and Tim Scott introduced S.2237, the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act. On the same day, Representative Vern Buchanan introduced H.R.4313 as companion legislation. Representatives Lloyd Smucker and Dwight Evans are the original cosponsors of the House bill.
The bill's goal of a five-year extension was achieved instead by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2026, which extended the AHCaH initiative through 2030 while mandating further study into the efficacy of hospital-at-home programs.