Our sister company, American Homemakers & Companions can provide those for you and our staff will help you to locate a payment source for this.
Our sister company, American Homemakers & Companions can provide those for you and our staff will help you to locate a payment source for this.
YES-remember, you always have the right to insist on the agency you want to care for you in your home. Tell the hospital staff that you have already selected an agency and give them our name and phone number.
A one-time assessment can be done by the nurse but we cannot provide any ongoing care without a doctor’s order. We will try to assist you to get physician orders in place but it will be easier if you advise your doctor that you need help at home.
Call the office at 860-838-2858 and request a nursing evaluation of your situation. Our intake nurse will help you to determine what your needs are and if necessary, send a nurse to the home to do an assessment. Then she will contact your physician for orders to care for you.
Medicaid, long term care insurance and private pay services will cover the cost of a home health aide to assist with these tasks.
Other payers may not require this-Medicaid (Title 19) does not require you to be homebound but will cover most of the same services. We will assist you to check with other private insurers to see what they will cover.
A skilled need means the nurse or therapist is teaching the person about their medicines, about their illness, caring for a wound, doing exercises or closely watching their reactions to medicines or other treatments.
This means that the person leaves home with difficulty for medical appointments, needs the assistance of a cane/walker or wheelchair, the help of another person and does not drive themselves.
Medicare will pay for services such as nursing visits, therapy, social work or aide visits if the physician has seen the patient recently, if the patient is “medically homebound” and has what is called a skilled need.
24 hours.