How It Works
SilverCensus is a Care Provider Directory & Question and Answer site for Caregivers, Healthcare Professionals and Enthusiasts … With your help, we’re working together to build a library of detailed answers to help families better under there rights related to Healthcare and avoid a healthcare crisis. It’s 100% free.SilverCensus is home to hundreds of Healthcare Professionals that actively participate!
Have A Question? Anyone can ask a question.
Have a Better Solution? Anyone can answer.
The top answers are voted up and rise to the top!
My father is 83 years old. My mother recently passed away. They live in the same house that I grew up in in Tennessee. He still drives even though his doctor told him he needed to stop. Recently my father has been coughing alot and his doctor ordered a nebulizer to help him stop coughing. I really feel the nebulizer is helping him as I drive over 20 minutes away to help him. I told a girlfriend that I have been doing the commute for the last week everyday and she mentioned getting a home care nurse. Can anyone tell me how I can get a nurse to come to the house to help him?
Best answer
To qualify for Medicare services at home a skill is required. A skill is considered services that a registered nurse and/or a licensed therapists (occupational and physical therapists) can perform. A patient must be under the care of a physician and has had a face to face encounter within the last 60 days of a home health order being written or will see the patient within 30 days of receiving an order. Monitoring respiratory changes and teaching/educating a patient and family about disease management processes is a skill set covered by Medicare if appropriate and a patient meets the criteria covered by Medicare for services. I suggest calling your dad’s doctor whether it is a primary care physician or pulmonologist and let them know about the situation.
Now does anyone have any suggestions how I can get a hospital bed for him? Kind of thinking he would be more comfortable with one.
Yes, medicare does cover a visiting nurse to help if he has medicare. If your dad has another insurance I suggest still following up with the physician to see what home services your dad can get. Your dad to me may have perhaps has an exacerbation of asthma. Check with a physician to see what services are warranted.
My mom had gotten a visiting nurse to see her after she had hip surgery. She had fallen in front of my house last Spring. After the surgery the doctor sent her home with a nurse and therapist to come to her house. All of these services were arranged by the hospital. Not sure if this helps you or not but I would chat with the doctor to see if he can get help instead of driving back and forth.