Qualifying for services
Qualifying for home health care
We can accept a referral for home health and help determine if an individual qualifies. In Ohio, services must be ordered by a physician. Once this determination and order have been made, we work directly with that physician and their staff to develop a custom home care plan for the patient. Conditions that generally meet coverage criteria include:
- A new diagnosis
- Recent exacerbation of a previous diagnosis
- New medication or medication dosage change
- Recent fall
- Wound care
- IV antibiotics
- Disease management
Additional criteria can include:
- Patients are homebound, meaning the person has an illness, medical condition or injury that restricts the ability to leave home without the assistance of others; the aid of supportive devices such as crutches, canes, wheelchairs or walkers; the use of special transportation; or those instances where leaving the home is medically contraindicated.
- There must exist a normal ability to leave the home and leaving the home must require a considerable taxing effort.
Unique Health Care Solutions is a dually certified Medicare and Medicaid home health agency. Home health care services may be covered under Medicare Part A or Part B.
