=?utf-8?Q?Re:_[oasis-l]_homebound_status_required_for_Medicaid=3F?=

It may be a state rule

From: Smith, Karen
Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎June‎ ‎9‎, ‎2016 ‎5‎:‎28‎ ‎PM
To: OASIS-L

I have not seen any changes to the regs requiring homebound status for Medicaid/Medical patients.

Karen Smith, RN, COS-C
OASIS/Coding
Resource Group
Horizon Home Health
karsmith@horizonhh.com
208.401.1072

-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Franklin [mailto:laura.franklin@ucsfmedctr.org]
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2016 2:28 PM
To: OASIS-L
Subject: [oasis-l] homebound status required for Medicaid?

I'm hoping some of you can help clarify this. I have conflicting information about whether Medicaid (Medi-Cal since we're in California) requires home health patients to be homebound. I've heard that it is not required, but then had a complaint and a state survey triggered because of a Medicaid patient who was questionably homebound. Our biller says that the billing manual seems to indicate that they should be homebound.

Please let me know if you have any information about this, and if possible, please include a source for it.

Thank you in advance for any help!

Laura Franklin
Sign In or Register to comment.