Senior Skilled Care
Home Healthcare with VIDA
VIDA Healthcare encompasses a broad range of services that can be provided in the comfort of your own home to manage illness or injury. At VIDA Healthcare, we offer a convenient, cost-effective alternative to hospital or skilled nursing facility (SNF) care, with the added benefit of delivering personalized, effective care tailored to your needs.
Coverage and Eligibility
Medicare Part A (Hospital Insurance) and/or Medicare Part B (Medical Insurance) cover eligible home health services if you require part-time or intermittent skilled services and meet the criteria for being “homebound.” This means:
You have difficulty leaving your home without assistance (such as a cane, wheelchair, walker, or crutches), special transportation, or help from another person due to illness or injury.
Your condition makes leaving your home not advisable.
It is a significant effort for you to leave your home.
Covered Home Health Services
At VIDA Healthcare, our services include:
Medically necessary part-time or intermittent skilled nursing care, such as:
Wound care for pressure sores or surgical wounds
Patient and caregiver education
Injections
Monitoring of serious illness and unstable health status
Therapeutic services, including:
Physical therapy
Occupational therapy
Speech-language pathology services
Medical social services
Part-time or intermittent home health aide care (provided alongside skilled nursing, physical therapy, speech-language pathology, or occupational therapy), such as:
Assistance with walking
Bathing or grooming
Changing bed linens
Feeding
Durable medical equipment and medical supplies for home use, including:
Disposable negative pressure wound therapy devices
Injectable osteoporosis drugs for women
Getting Started with Home Health Care
Before certifying your need for home health services, a doctor or other health care provider (such as a nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, or physician assistant) must conduct a face-to-face visit. The care must be ordered by a doctor or other provider and delivered by a Medicare-certified home health agency like VIDA Healthcare.
If your provider determines that home health care is necessary, they should provide you with a list of agencies in your area and disclose any financial interests they may have in the listed agencies.
Service Limitations
“Part-time or intermittent” care generally means you can receive skilled nursing care and home health aide services for up to 8 hours a day (combined) and a maximum of 28 hours per week. If your provider deems it necessary, you may receive more frequent care for a short duration (less than 8 hours each day and no more than 35 hours each week).
Please note that Medicare does not cover:
24-hour-a-day care at home
Home meal delivery
Homemaker services unrelated to your care plan (like shopping and cleaning)
Custodial or personal care solely for daily living activities (such as bathing, dressing, or using the bathroom)
You may still qualify for home health care if you need more than part-time care, as long as it’s part of your overall care plan. Additionally, you can leave your home for medical treatments or infrequent non-medical reasons, like attending religious services, and continue to receive home health care if you attend adult day care.
For more information about our services and how VIDA Healthcare can support you or your loved ones, please contact us today.
Your costs in Original Medicare
$0 for covered home health care services.
After you meet the Part B deductible, 20% of the Medicare-approved amount for Medicare-covered medical equipment.
Please note you should to reach out to Medicare to ensure you will receive full coverage prior to services.