Home healthcare encompasses a range of healthcare services delivered in a patient’s home. Home healthcare services range from in-home nursing care or rehabilitation following a hospital stay, to ongoing assistance with daily living activities such as shopping, meal preparation or bathing.

Are you a candidate for home healthcare?

The following criteria determine if you may be eligible to receive home health care under your Medicare benefits:

• You must require intermittent skilled nursing care, physical therapy or speech therapy.
• You must be homebound – see definition below.
• You must be currently under a physician's care. All home health services must be ordered by your physician.

Medicare defines Homebound:

1. The beneficiary has been certified by one physician as an individual who has a permanent and sever, disabling condition that is not expected to improve;
2. The beneficiary is dependent upon assistance from another individual with at least 3 out of 5 activities of daily living for the rest of the beneficiary’s life;
3. The beneficiary requires skilled nursing services for the rest of the beneficiary’s life and the skilled nursing is more than medication management;
4. An attendant is required to visit the beneficiary on a daily basis to monitor and treat the beneficiary’s medical condition or to assist the beneficiary with activities of daily living;
5. The beneficiary requires technological assistance or the assistance of another person to leave the home; and
6. The beneficiary does not regularly work in a paid position full-time or part-time outside the home.

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