Wasn't/Isn't someone a home healthcare rep/nurse?

StingShark425

I think it was NurseMindy, but I can't be sure..

anyone?

I need help finding a home health care company that will see a medicaid patient.

 

I'm seriously ready to cuss someone out over this "we don't accept medicaid" attitude everyone has. BLAH!

Aidens__mommy

I am pretyy sure it was mindy

Floridamom224

butting in...I used to work full-time at the hospital as a social worker, and we have a medicaid rotation,.  Meaning, if we have a medicaid patient who needs to be seen, then we use the rotation that has about 5 agencies on it so that it is far.  we also have a medicare rotation with all of these agencies on it, so they get a fair amount of well paying insurance patients, and a fair amount of the ones that are medicaid, since it is basically having to take it and not get paid for it.  basically, the home health agency would send a nurse out for a couple of visits to follow up and help the patient, but they would not provide OT or PT bc that service is not covered AT ALL.  so, if the patient needed diabetic testing assistance/teaching, or was in need of monitoring BP etc, they could do that.  It helped if the patient was "teachable," meaning that they or someone in the home can be taught what needs to be done in order to keep the patient healthy and safe.  They would also provide a couple of wound care visits if needed, but we would send a lot of supplies with them from the hospital, since Medicaid won't pay the agency for those supplies either.  Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.  this was a year ago thatI last worked, and the agencies I remember being on the rotation were, Baycare, Gentiva (which is the one Mindy works for i believe),  Senior Home Care, Advantage Home Care, Home Health Corporation of america (they changed their name, and I can't remember what the new name is), and Alliance care.  HTH!

StingShark425

Floridamom224:

butting in...I used to work full-time at the hospital as a social worker, and we have a medicaid rotation,.  Meaning, if we have a medicaid patient who needs to be seen, then we use the rotation that has about 5 agencies on it so that it is far.  we also have a medicare rotation with all of these agencies on it, so they get a fair amount of well paying insurance patients, and a fair amount of the ones that are medicaid, since it is basically having to take it and not get paid for it.  basically, the home health agency would send a nurse out for a couple of visits to follow up and help the patient, but they would not provide OT or PT bc that service is not covered AT ALL.  so, if the patient needed diabetic testing assistance/teaching, or was in need of monitoring BP etc, they could do that.  It helped if the patient was "teachable," meaning that they or someone in the home can be taught what needs to be done in order to keep the patient healthy and safe.  They would also provide a couple of wound care visits if needed, but we would send a lot of supplies with them from the hospital, since Medicaid won't pay the agency for those supplies either.  Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help.  this was a year ago thatI last worked, and the agencies I remember being on the rotation were, Baycare, Gentiva (which is the one Mindy works for i believe),  Senior Home Care, Advantage Home Care, Home Health Corporation of america (they changed their name, and I can't remember what the new name is), and Alliance care.  HTH!

Thanks. I actually was going to call baycare, but the medicaid office called me back and said that horizon does take medicaid ... I had called them and they said they didn't..I don't know what happened, but when I called them back they did.

It would have been easier had the patient been leaving the hospital. but she is s/p surgery for a year...