Medicare Home Health Care

Home Care For Seniors Medicare

If you have enrolled with home care for seniors Medicare insurance, you can choose to get your benefits from the Original Medicare or from the Medicare Advantage Plan.
Medicare is a federal health insurance program that provides health care coverage if:
  • You are 65 years and above
  • You are under 65 and receive social security disability insurance
  • You are under 65 with end-stage renal disease

What is Home Health Care?

Home health care includes a wide range of in home health care services that are carried out in the comfort of a person’s home. Home health care is convenient and as effective as the medical care you receive at a traditional doctor’s office.

Medicare home health care pays for the in home health care services carried out by a qualified doctor who accepts assignment. These services can include lab tests, chronic illness management, medication management, and education, diabetes management, and speech and occupational therapy.

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Different Parts of Medicare

Medicare Advantage Plan

Medicare is divided into four parts:

  • Part A (hospital coverage)

Medicare Part A offer coverage for inpatient hospital stays care in hospice care, skilled nursing facility, and some home health care.

  • Part B (medical coverage)

Medicare Part B provides outpatient coverage including necessary services from a licensed health professional, home health services, emergency ambulance services, screenings and preventive services, and therapy services offered by Medicare-certified therapists.

  • Part C (alternate way to receive benefits)

Medicare Part C, also called Medicare Advantage Plan is a type of Medicare health plan offered by a private insurance company along with the existing Medicare plan. Each Medicare Advantage Plan provides all Medicare Part A and B services but with a different set of rules, coverage restrictions, and costs.

  • Part D (prescription drug coverage)

Medicare Part D adds prescription drug coverage to outpatient drug prescriptions. It is either offered by private companies as a stand-alone plan or as a set of benefits included with the Medicare Advantage Plan. It consists of a list of covered drugs called formulary. Drugs not on the formulary are not covered by private plans.

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Who’s Eligible for Medicare Home Health Care?

Medicare home health care program

Medicare home health care covers all people having Part A and Part B Medicare and fulfills the following conditions:

  • The patient must be under the constant care of a doctor
  • The doctor must certify that the patient is:

    • Under intermittent skilled nursing care
    • Speech-language pathology
    • A kidney transplant patient
  • The patient must be homebound

To be eligible for the Medicare home health care program, the patient’s condition is expected to improve within a predictable time frame. Further, the patient must be working with a skilled therapist to effectively make and perform maintenance program according to his condition.