To be eligible for Medicare covered home health services,
a beneficiary must meet three requirements:
1. he/she must be homebound,
2. 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
3. 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.
http://www.medicare.gov/coverage/home-healthservices.
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Finding Premium to Fund Your Recommendations
for Additional Coverage – SLIMB
Pays their Medicare Part B Premium
One way is to use SLIMB (Specified Low-Income
Medicare Beneficiary Program). The SLIMB program
provides payment of Medicare Part B premiums only for
individuals who would be eligible for the QMB program
except for excess income. Many are eligible and do not
even know it.
http://www.medicare.gov/your-medicare-costs/help-payingcosts/
medicare-savings-program/medicare-savingsprograms.
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