More Work For Geeks

The news last Tuesday didn’t surprise me—Best Buy Will Set Up In-Home Hospital Care Through A New Deal With Atrium Health. North Carolina’s Atrium Health system is deploying the Best Buy Geek Squad to help them operationalize hospital-at-home programs. Now, in addition to having the Geek Squad set up my smart television, they can set up remote health monitoring devices.

Like telehealth, the hospital-at-home program was one of the significant changes brought to us by the pandemic and the declaration of the public health emergency. At this point, CMS payment for the . . .