1. By Katy Wendland

2. Home Health Care is skilled health care
services that you get in your home for the
treatment of an illness or injury.
All Medicare beneficiaries can receive
home health care benefits.

3.  To get Medicare home health care:
• Your doctor must decide that you need medical care in your
home, and make a plan for your care at home
• You must need intermittent skilled nursing care, or physical
therapy or speech language pathology services
• You must be homebound. This means that you are normally
unable to leave home. Being homebound means that
leaving home is a major effort. When you leave home, it
must be infrequent, for a short time, or to get medical care
• The home health agency caring for you must be approved
by the Medicare program.
• You must meet all four of these conditions for Medicare to
cover home health care.

4. Many patient of different age ranges
receive care at home.
• Infants (5.8%)
• Toddlers (8.8%)
• Children (3.9%)
• Adolescents (1.7%)
• Adults (19.8%)
• Elderly (60%)

5. Some of the most frequently seen
diagnoses in home health are
1. Developmental Disability/Congenital Disorders
2. Joint Replacement
3. Balance/Falls Disorders

6. Almost half of treatment time is spent on
Musculoskeletal (47.1%)
Second largest percent of time is spent on
Neuromuscular (35.8%)
Cardiopulmonary also takes up some of
the time spent on treatment (14.1%)
Very little time is spent working with the
integumentary system (2.9%)

7. Home Health

8. Decreased from 10% in 1999 to 6.6%in
2008.
 70 of 1049 PTAs work in this setting

9. Home Health median
full time income $53500
Geographically the
physical therapist
assistants in the South
have the highest salary
while those in the
Midwest make the
lowest.

10. To be a PTA Home Health provider you
need at least two years of schooling.
Different states have specific rules
regarding keeping up with advancements
in this field after graduation.

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