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Home Health
Care Under
Medicare
One of the least known benefits covered by Medicare, but one potentially valuable to many people, is home health care.
Home health care can be covered under either Medicare hospital insurance or Medicare medical insurance, depending on the circumstances.
Home health care is for people who do not need fulltime skilled care as inpatients of a medical facility, but who do have an illness or injury that prevents them from leaving home to receive the health care they need.
People who need part-time skilled health services can receive home health care from an agency, either public or private, that specializes in nursing services to patients in their home.
Medicare can pay for such services as part-time skilled nursing services, physical therapy and speech therapy. For a person who needs one or more of these. Medicare can also pay for part-time services of an occupational therapist, home health aide, or medical social worker, medical supplies and appliances.
Medicare cannot pay for full-time nursing care at home, drugs and biologicals. personal comfort or convenience items. meals delivered to a person’s home or homemaker services.
Free copies of a leaflet, “Home Health care under Medicare,” can be obtained at the Culpeper social security office, located at 522 Culpeper Shopping Center, phone 825-3500.
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