Home health care services definition

Home health care services means medical and nonmedical services, provided to ill, disabled or infirm persons in their residences. Such services may include homemaker services, assistance with activities of daily living and respite care services.

Home health care services means any of the following services which are Medically Necessary to achieve the plan of care referred to in condition (3) above and are provided for the care of the Insured Person: nursing care (furnished by or under the supervision of a Registered Nurse); physical therapy; occupational therapy; medical social work; nutrition services; speech therapy; home health aide services; medical appliances and equipment, drugs and medications, laboratory services and special meals, to the extent such items and services would be covered by this Policy if the Insured were in a Hospital; and any diagnostic or therapeutic service, including surgical services performed in a Hospital outpatient department, a Physician's office or any other licensed health care facility, to the extent such service would be covered by this Policy if performed as an inpatient Hospital service, provided that service is performed as part of the plan of care.

Home health care services means health care services for an Insured Person by a public or private home health agency which meets the standards of service of the purchaser of service, provided in a patient's residence; provided, however, that such residence is neither a hospital nor an institution primarily engaged in providing skilled nursing or rehabilitation services. Said services shall include, but not be limited to, nursing and physical therapy.

Examples of Home health care services in a sentence

• Home Health Care Services requires Prior Authorization and your Practitioner’s/Provider’s approved plan of care.

• Home Health Care Services shall include Medically Necessary skilled intermittent Healthcare Services provided by a registered nurse or a licensed practical nurse; physical, occupational, and/or respiratory therapist and/or speech pathologist.

• If your Short Term Rehabilitation therapy is provided in an Inpatient setting (such as, but not limited to, Rehabilitation Facilities, Skilled Nursing Facilities, intensive day- Hospital programs that are delivered by a Rehabilitation Facility) or through Home Health Care Services, the therapy is not subject to the time limitation requirements of the Outpatient therapies outlined in the Summary of Benefits and Coverage.

• Home Health Care Services are Healthcare Services provided to you when you are confined to the home due to physical illness.

More Definitions of Home health care services

Home health care services means services, provided to an individual primarily in her/his place of residence, that include but are not limited to: (A) licensed nursing services; (B) physical therapy services; (C) speech therapy services; (D) audiology services; (E) occupational therapy services; (F) nutritional services; (G) social services; or (H) home health aide services. The HHA must provide at least one of these services directly and in its entirety by employees of the HHA. The other therapeutic services and any additional services may be provided either directly or under arrangement.

Home health care services means items or services furnished to a patient by an employee of a health care employer in a place of temporary or permanent residence used as the patient’s home. [2007 c.397 §2]

Home health care services means home health care services that are covered by the Employees Health Insurance Plan.

Home health care services means nursing and other home

Home health care services means medical and non-medical services rendered in their residences to ill, disabled or infirm persons, including homemaker services, assistance with activities of daily living and respite care.

Home health care services means services, provided to an individual primarily in her/his place of residence, that include but are not limited to: (A) licensed nursing services; (B) physical therapy services; (C) speech therapy services; (D) audiology services; (E) occupational therapy services; (F) nutritional services; (G) social services; or (H) home health aide services.

Home health care services means those services defined in § 22 19-401 of this article and in 42 C.F.R. 440.70.