...confined to his or her home (except when receiving outpatient services); and 2. The person is in need of skilled nursing care on an intermittent basis or physical or speech therapy; and 3. The services are needed to treat a condition for which the beneficiary received inpatient hospital...

...be made for home health services unless the services were required because of the individual needed skilled nursing care on an intermittent basis, or physical or speech therapy. The purpose of this letter is to clarify several areas of confusion which have arisen in the application...

...aides, the use of medical supplies and appliances, and the medical services of residents and interns. Since the patient must be certified as needing skilled...therapy in order to qualify for home health benefits, payment may be made for these other home health services only so long as the provision of skilled nursing...

...not be made for home health services unless the services were required because the individual needed skilled nursing care on an intermittent basis, or physical or speech therapy. The purpose of this letter is to clarify several areas of confusion which have arisen in the application...

...services which requires that before an individual may qualify for another service, he first must need skilled nursing care on an Intermittent basis, or physical or speech therapy. We propose that while a home health agency be required to have available these professional services,...

...services which requires that before an individual may qualify for another service, he first must need skilled nursing care on an Intermittent basis, or physical or speech therapy. We propose that while a home health agency be required to have available these professional services,...

...services which requires that before an individual may qualify for another service, he first must need skilled nursing care on an intermittent basis, or physical or speech therapy. We propose that while a home health agency be required to have available these professional services,...

...When prescribing a course of home health care, the physician must certify that the patient "needed skilled nursing care on an intermittent basis, or physical or speech therapy...."** Another cost control device is the requirement that each participating hospital and nursing home evaluate...

...his home (except when receiving items and services referred to in section 1861 (m) (7)) and needed skilled nursing care on an intermittent basis, or physical or speech therapy, for any of the conditions with respect to which he was receiving inpatient hospital services (or services...

...her home (except when receiving items and services referred to in section 1851 (m) (7) ) and needed skilled nursing care on an intermittent basis, or physical or speech therapy, (ii) a plan for furnishing sudi services to such individual has been established and is periodically...