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.