Home Health Services
Key Takeaways:
- If you’re homebound with an injury or illness or have been recently hospitalized, you may require home health care services.
- Medicare provides coverage for certain home health care services under Medicare Part A or Part B.
- Medicare has specific rules about home health care coverage. It’s important to know what the plan will and will not pay for.
To qualify for home health care, you must meet the following criteria:
- Be considered homebound based on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) criteria,
- Require skilled care on a part-time or intermittent basis to improve, maintain, prevent, or further slow your health condition,
- Be under the care of a nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, physician’s assistant, or doctor, who completes and documents an in-person visit with you either:
- three months before the start of home health care, or
- within one month after the home health care benefit has begun.
- Receive home health care from a Medicare-approved home health agency.
Home-based Primary Care…we come to you. Connect with us through our patient portal, call, or email to schedule your appointment: 240-507-0655 or schedule@prevalhealthcare.com