Home care definition
Home care means care and treatment of an insured under a plan of care established, approved in writing and reviewed at least every 2 months by the attending physician, unless the attend- ing physician determines that a longer interval between reviews is sufficient, and consisting of one or more of the following:
Home care means health care provided in the patient’s home (not a hospital or skilled nursing facility) by either licensed health professionals or trained caregivers. May include hospice care.
Home care means assistance with IADLs such as housekeeping, laundry, shopping, transportation, medication management, and meal preparation.
Examples of Home care in a sentence
Home care services also include homemaking services that are incidental to the client’s health needs such as making the client’s bed, cleaning the client’s living area, such as bedroom and bathroom, and doing the client’s laundry and shopping.
Home care services include personal care services, such as assisting the client with personal hygiene, dressing, feeding, transfer and ambulatory needs.
Home care services include laboratory services and private duty nursing for a patient whose medical condition requires more skilled nursing than intermittent visiting nursing care.
Home care services do not include respite care, relief care, or day care.
More Definitions of Home care
Home care or "home care services" means services provided to children or incapacitated adults or adults receiving behavioral health services in the home through a hospice provider, a community care provider, a home health agency, through the Medicaid waiver program, or through any person when that service is reimbursable under the state Medicaid program.
Home care means a patient’s self−infusion of blood products on an outpatient basis, or the infusion of blood products to a patient on an outpatient basis by a person trained in that proce- dure.
Home care means a service provided through a contractor and which consists of minimal or substantial assistance with activities of daily living and self-management, although the client may require full assistance with eating and still utilize Home Care.
Home care means preventative, primary, specialty, or urgent
Home care means a level of care provided to a patient that is consistent with the categories "routine home care" or "continuous home care" described in 42 C.F.R. 418.302(b)(1) and (2).
Home care means hospice care primarily delivered in the residence of the hospice patient, whether that place is the patient’s permanent or temporary residence. A hospice patient who considers his or her residence to be a licensed nursing home, licensed intermediate care home, licensed personal care home, or residential hospice setting shall be considered to be receiving home care while a resident of that facility.
Home care means a full-time family-type living arrangement, in a private home, under which a person or a group of persons provides, on a non-profit basis, basic services of maintenance and supervision, and any necessary specialized services as may be needed, for three or fewer elderly or disabled adult relatives or non-relatives.