Services
Skilled care ordered by your provider, delivered at home.
Medicare covers these services when they are medically necessary, part-time or intermittent, ordered by your doctor or other qualifying provider, and given by a Medicare-certified agency. Visit types are combined on one plan of care.
Skilled nursing
Licensed nurses visit for medically necessary, part-time skilled care: wounds, medications, IV or nutrition therapy, injections, and monitoring of a serious or unstable condition. They also teach you and your family how to stay safe between visits.
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Physical therapy
Physical therapists help you get better, keep the function you have, or slow decline after surgery, illness, or a fall, so daily life at home is safer.
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Occupational therapy
Occupational therapists focus on the tasks that make a house livable: self-care, energy conservation, and adapting the home to you.
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Speech-language pathology
Speech-language pathologists treat communication and swallowing so meals are safer and conversations stay possible.
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Medical social services
Medical social workers help when social or emotional concerns get in the way of treatment or recovery. Medicare covers this when you are also getting skilled nursing or therapy.
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Home health aide
Home health aides help with walking, bathing or grooming, changing bed linens, and feeding. Medicare covers aide care only when you are also getting skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, or speech-language pathology.
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