If your appeal isn't successful, your mother will be considered a private pay patient. While she will not have her benefits ...

Many people will need to stay in a nursing home at some point in their lives. How much care they'll need and how long they need to stay, however, can be hard to predict. And unfortunately, Medicare ...

This is evident in Idaho, where 37% of patients referred to home health care after hospitalization did not receive it last ...

Home health care has topped the list of nursing specialties with the most malpractice claims – with each claim representing a ...

When integrated into the continuum of care, home health helps ensure that patients discharged from acute care settings and skilled nursing facilities do not suffer relapses that require ...

Medicare covers up to 8 hours per day and a maximum of 28-35 hours per week of home health care under Part A or Part B when this service is provided by a Medicare-certified home health agency. To be ...

An estimated 90% of patients receiving home health care have at least one discrepancy between their medication lists and what ...

Selassie Fynn talks about the mounting elderly care crisis, giving patients more than “wound care” and the barriers to access ...