CONTACT INFORMATION
MEDICARE
1-800-MEDICARE
www.medicare.gov
CMS (CENTERS FOR MEDICARE / MEDICAID SERVICES)
www.CMS.gov
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
1-800-772-1213
www.SSA.gov
OVERVIEW OF HOME HEALTH CARE
To be eligible for Medicare-covered home health services, a beneficiary must meet three requirements:
• he/she must be homebound,
• he/she must need part-time or intermittent skilled nursing care and/or skilled
rehabilitation, or, after establishing prior eligibility, a continuing need for
occupational therapy, and
• he/she must be under the care of a physician and need reasonable and necessary
home health services that have been certified by a physician and established in a
60-day plan of care.
