Home Health Care. A program of home health care and home care services to reduce the length of hospital stay and admissions shall be available at the employee's option. The service must be prescribed by an attending physician who must certify that the home health care services are being used instead of inpatient hospital care, and that the patient is confined to the home due to illness. Services shall be covered to the extent that they would have been covered if the individual had remained or been confined in the hospital. Home infusion therapy shall be covered as part of the home health care benefit or covered by its separate components (e.g. durable medical equipment and prescription drugs), however a patient shall not be required to be homebound.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
