Eligibility Requirements for Medicare Covered Home Health Services

To be eligible for Medicare-covered home health services, a beneficiary must meet three requirements:

• he/she must be homebound,

• he/she must need part-time or intermittent skilled nursing care and/or skilled rehabilitation, or, after establishing prior eligibility, a continuing need for occupational therapy, and

• he/she must be under the care of a physician and need reasonable and necessary home health services that have been certified by a physician and established in a 60-day plan of care.

Budget Proposal Seeks Home Health Care Copay

As we head into the wrap up of OEP Congress and the President will be busy trying to work on making Medicare a fiscally viable program. One of the latest proposals would affect Medicare’s Home Health Care benefit:

• A large portion of the proposed budgetary increase is supposed to come from instituting $100 Medicare copayments for Medicare patients who use home health care. 
• The $100 copayment is supposed to produce $730 million from patients who currently use home health care but do not pay for the services they receive.
• The proposed copayment would apply to episodes of care requiring five or more visits over a period of 60 days or less, which in 2008 would have applied to 63 percent of episodes.
• The problem with the assumption that many people are using home health care that could instead seek outpatient care is that home health care prevents a lot of inpatient hospital stays.

Join us at Senior Marketing Specialist for the first of two webinars this Wednesday November 20^th to find out more about an inexpensive answer to help your clients recover at home, regardless of other coverage including Medicare.

The Future is Bright!

Dan McNerney, President and CEO of McNerney Management Group, is proud to announce that after 36 extremely successful years, he is retiring and passing the torch to his Executive Leadership team of Bobby Richardson, David McNerney, and JoAnn Wray.

“I have been so blessed in my career and life to have the partnerships and relationships I’ve had over the years that have enabled me to reach every goal in my Career. I am now able to reach some new goals and spend more time with family in the beautiful mountains of Colorado.

Our company has seen such tremendous growth over my 36 years and I am proud to pass the torch to the Leadership Team that has spent their entire adult life building this company side-by-side with me.

With the addition of the new state of the art training center in our home office, additional offices opening in several cities throughout the country, the career division doubling in size, the brokerage division at over 8,000 agents, an on-line training campus, and the best staff and support systems that genuinely care about the success of our agents and each other, 2014 and beyond is set to be more successful and ground breaking than anything we have ever seen!” Dan McNerney

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