Medicaid

Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with limited income and resources. Medicaid programs vary from state to state, but most health care costs are covered if you qualify for both Medicare and Medicaid. View more information regarding MEDICAID.

Medically Necessary

Medically Necessary means health care services or supplies needed to diagnose or treat an illness, injury, condition, disease, or its symptoms and that meet accepted standards of medicine.

Medical Social Worker

Medical Social Worker provides case management, coordination of community resources, and assistance with the social/emotional effects of coping with acute and chronic illness in the home.

Medicare

Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, certain younger people with disabilities, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, sometimes called ESRD).

Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy is a treatment that helps you return to your usual activities (like bathing, preparing meals, and housekeeping) after an illness or injury.

Physical Therapy

Physical therapy is a treatment of an injury or illness by mechanical means, like exercise, massage, heat, and light treatment.

Psychiatric Nursing

Psychiatric Nursing is provided, under the direction of a physician, by a Registered Nurse who has met certain experience and training requirements prior to providing skilled psychoactive treatments in the patient’s home.