choosing the most appropriate medicare

If you've reached the age when you are eligible for Medicare and your medical treatments require

that they be given in your home, it is possible, that if they meet all eligibility criteria, they may be

acceptable as home care treatment. Quite often home health care is less expensive, just as

effective, and more convenient than care an individual would receive in a skilled nursing facility or

in a hospital, so it makes economic and compassionate sense for the Medicare Home Care

program to pay for the treatments whenever possible. The prime goal of Medicare homecare is to

aid a patient to as quickly as possible become healthy and self-sufficient and independent.

In order to be eligible for senior citizen must be on Medicare and under the care of a physician.

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A physician must have requested the plan and be continuously supervising and monitoring its

progress. A physician must certify that the patient requires at least one of the following forms of

treatment.

Physical therapy, The services on a speech pathology therapist, Intermittent skilled nursing care,

OT (occupational therapy).

The home healthcare agency providing these medical services and service people must be

Medicare approved.

The individual must be homebound and a doctor must verify that the individual is homebound.

The following are necessary to meet the requirements of being determined to be homebound.

It is very taxing for the patient to leave and requires a great deal of effort.

Due to the nature of their medical condition is recommended that they do not leave their

home.Their medical condition prevents them from leaving their home without the aid of a

transportation assistance device such as a wheelchair or Walker or the help of another person.

Broward Medicare certified home care

An individual is eligible if a doctor verifies that they meet all of the aforementioned criteria. It

should be noted that should that patient ever require more than part-time or intermittent care, they

may lose that eligibility for Medicare home care.

The term intermittent or part-time is defined by Medicare as fewer than eight hours a day or less

than seven days a week over a period of 21 days or less. Medicare will allow exceptions

occasionally when there are unusual circumstances. These limitations can be lifted in those

exceptional circumstances, when the patient's physician is able to make an accurate prediction

when that additional care will no longer be required. It must be emphasized that Medicare home

health care is not a perpetual benefit.

Payments to the Medicare home care agency are the only payments that Medicare home care will

provide. Visits to the doctor and other medical services are not paid by Medicare home health

care instead by other parts of the Medicare program.

To find a qualified Medicare-certified home health agency, an individual may ask for

recommendations from their doctor, the discharge planners at their hospital, the Ombudsman at

their local Area Agency on Aging, or they may contact the Eldercare Locator.

Any of these can provide names of Medicare-certified home health agencies in the individual's

local area. In addition, the State Survey Agency for the individual's state of residence will also

have all of the state survey reports available on the state government website. These state survey

reports will have all of the quality indicators for all of the licensed home health agencies in the

state. It is a good idea to check and see how any home health agency did on their last state

survey before hiring them to provide Medicare Home Care services for yourself or anyone you

may care about.

Broward County Florida Medicare home care