Which of your patients might benefit from home care? The following symptoms/needs and diseases are recognized by Medicare as acceptable reasons for ordering home care. You can specify which services you want for your patient including skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and medical social work.
Symptoms / Needs
- AIDS
- ALS
- Alzheimer’s
- ASHD
- Amputation
- Arthritis
- Bowel Obstruction
- Burns
- CAD, CHF, COPD
- Cancer
- Cellulitis
- Chronic Pain
- Depression
- Dizziness
- Fatigue (Sever)
- Home Safety Eval.
- Hypoxia
- IV’s
- Ileostomy Care
- Incontinence
- Injections/IM-SQ
- Injury Potential
- Jaundice
- Lab Specimens
- Medical Eval
- Multi-Meds
- Med Changes
- Mobility Limits
- Nutrition Assess/Care
- O2 Sats
- Pain (Chronic)
- Paralysis
- Post-Op Assessment
- Seizures
- Sepsis
- Skin Breakdown
- SOB
- Swallow Difficulty
- Teaching
- Tube Feedings
- Vomiting
- Weakness (Generalized)
- Wound Care
Symptoms / Needs
- ADL Deficits
- Aphasia
- Aspiration
- Balance Problems
- Burns
- Cardiac Assessment
- Chronic Disease
- Colostomy Care
- Confusion
- Constipation
- Convulsions
- Colitis
- DVT
- Dehydration
- Depression
- Diabetes
- Fractures
- GI bleed
- Gastric Ulcers
- Gastroenteritis
- HTN
- Head Injury
- IDDM
- Joint Replacement
- Lupus
- MD, MS
- MI Acute
- Multiple Trauma
- Neuropathy
- OBS
- Organ Transplant
- Osteomyelitis
- Osteoporosis
- Parkinson’s
- PE
- Pneumonia
- Polio
- Skin Grafts
- Stasis Ulcers
- Stroke
- TBI
- TIA
- UTI
- Wounds
To Receive Home Care, The Patient Must:
- Be homebound. This requirement is met if the patient leaves home infrequently and it is a difficult and taxing effort for them to do so. The patient may leave their home for medical appointments.
- Require a skilled level of care
- Be under the care of a physician
