Travis Messina, Founder & Healthcare Executive
What Congress’ New Healthcare Legislation Means for Contessa’s Care at Home
On Tuesday, long-awaited legislation that impacts healthcare at home in 2023 and beyond was unveiled by Congress. With the passage of the new omnibus spending…
Who We Are Today: A Look Back at 2022
Healthcare is constantly evolving, a fact particularly evidenced in the past two years since the COVID-19 pandemic. As the pandemic has shifted into the rearview…
How Contessa Solves 4 Key Issues Hospital Systems Face Today
Hospital systems are facing enormous pressures in a post-COVID environment. The past two years have seen major challenges in decreasing the cost of care, increasing…
Understanding Hospital Care at Home
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the challenges of providing adequate resources to patients who need inpatient hospital admission. To meet these challenges, health systems and…
Advantages for All: Why Contessa Partners with Medicare Advantage Plans
At Contessa, we strive to improve the healthcare process for patients, providers and payers. At the core of this concept is our managed care strategy,…
How Hospital Care at Home Supports Rural Healthcare
Over the last several decades, a combination of factors has left America’s small towns with fewer hospitals, clinics and doctors. All of these have harmed the patient experience, with long journeys to receive care becoming an unfortunate hallmark of small-town life. Through a combination of dedicated health systems, willing payers and up-to-date regulation, however, we can revitalize rural healthcare. And the main mechanism for doing so is through home hospital care models, like Contessa’s.
The Future of Hospital Care at Home, With or Without CMS Waivers
When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) introduced its Hospitals Without Walls program in March 2020, health systems could finally provide acute care services beyond their walls, in locations like patient homes, and be properly reimbursed for it. The pandemic created a clear need and demand for these services, and the program became an undisputed win, albeit a temporary one, for providers seeking to offer alternative sites of care.
Risky Business: Why Contessa Takes on Risk to Treat Patients at Home
No risk, no reward. Find out why Contessa’s financial model assumes risk, benefitting our patients, provider partners and payer affiliates.
Build or Buy? Three Things to Consider Before Starting a Hospital at Home Program
When integrating a home hospital care program at an existing health system, is it necessary to recreate the wheel and build your own from scratch? Contessa CEO Travis Messina explains.
Hospitals Without Walls Waivers are Working. Let’s Make Them Permanent.
For years, healthcare slowly marched into the future. Telehealth and alternative sites of care steadily gained acceptance and improved experiences, outcomes, and bottom lines, but failed to break into the mainstream. That changed in 2020 and the march became a sprint.
Exploring the Many Possibilities of Hospital Care at Home
We’ve learned a lot during the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve learned that our doctors and nurses really are heroes, putting their lives on the line to…
Slowing Down to Speed Up: 5 Things We Learned in 2020
Let’s face it: 2020 was a challenging year. Here are five things we learned as an innovative healthcare business in the face of great difficulty and opportunity.