PERSONAL CARE
Personal care help people with day-to-day activities in their home and community to help a person maximize his/her independence. An aide is a qualified employee of a home health agency who completes medically oriented task(s) that maintain a person’s health or facilitate treatment of an illness or injury. Aide services may be provided in a person’s place of residence or in the community.
COVERED SERVICES
The aide may:
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- Provide hands-on personal care
- Help with ambulating or doing exercises
- Help with instrumental activities of daily living
- Help with medication administration
- Perform simple procedures as an extension of therapy or nursing services.
All aide services, including extended aide services, must be:
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- Based on an assessed need
- Delivered as described and documented in the person’s care or service plan
- Medically necessary
- Ordered by a physician
- Supervised by a registered nurse or appropriate therapist (i.e., physical, occupational, speech-language pathology) when providing services as an extension of therapy.