Travis Messina, Founder & Chief Executive Officer

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 package, Congress has taken another step to recognize the importance of the innovation in healthcare spurred by COVID-19, specifically around policies like the hospital-at-home model and the expanding use of telehealth.    Here at Contessa, together with our parent company, Amedisys, Inc., we are proud to have unveiled our Comprehensive Care at Home model in 2022. This full continuum of care in the home sets the industry standard for this modality of care. And we’re…

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 mirror in 2022, the changes it brought and the natural progression of improving care for all stakeholders— providers, payers, and patients- has solidified Contessa as a leader in changing the way healthcare is delivered.   A number of emerging trends have made home-based healthcare one of the fastest growing and most urgently needed healthcare services in the country. Contessa’s history and expertise has helped us to grow effectively and safely meet that need, a process that…

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 revenue, managing staffing constraints and addressing shifting consumer demands. In the same way that the rest of the world has adapted to the many changes that the COVID pandemic introduced, the delivery of healthcare is evolving as well.  In rising to meet these challenges, novel approaches are necessary. Thankfully, hospital systems who turn to a partnership with Contessa find a source of innovative solutions for these key issues that hospital systems face today. Having Contessa…

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 health plans are turning to alternative approaches that deliver high-quality care outside the four walls of the hospital, while at the same time ensuring it is safe and affordable.  One solution at the forefront of this objective is hospital care at home. This care modality has evolved to meet the increasing demand for accessible acute care, by bringing hospital-level care to the home. Simply put, hospital care at home offers medical services in the home…

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.

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The world awoke to the need of hospital-level care at home last year, making 2020 a watershed moment for Contessa. But, in terms of achieving our goal for expanding access to the unique and much-needed care model we offer, 2021 has proven to be even more significant.