If you have Medicare, you can use your home health benefits if:
1. You’re under the care of a doctor, and you’re getting services under a plan of care established and reviewed regularly by a doctor.
2. You need, and a doctor certifies that you need, one or more of these:
Intermittent skilled nursing care (other than drawing blood)
Physical therapy
Speech-language pathology services
Continued occupational therapy See pages 8–9 for more details on these services.
3. The home health agency caring for you is approved by Medicare (Medicare certified).
4. You’re homebound, and a doctor certifies that you’re homebound.
5. As part of your certification of eligibility, a doctor, or certain health care professionals who work with a doctor (like a nurse practitioner), must document that they’ve had a face-to-face encounter with you (like an appointment with your primary care doctor) within required time frames and that the encounter was related to the reason you need home health care.