Re: Spam Alert: Re: [QUAD-L] FOUND IT! - Medicare & Home Health Care

[tahouston]

When daughter was living with me, my Medicare/HMO gave me 49 hours of PCA care, one visit a week from a nursing agency to check my wounds, and two home visits a year if I chose not to make a personal office visit from a doctor.   Now that my 18-year-old daughter no longer lives with me, they have decreased my hours to 42 hours for PCA care.   I live alone in a three-bedroom ranch in a West suburban area of Chicago.  They told me that if I get another roommate or rent out a room, they will return my 49 hours.  Go figure. Tom Houston  ----- Original Message ----- From: S. Dial To: Quadlist Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 4:30 PM Subject: Spam Alert: Re: [QUAD-L] FOUND IT! - Medicare & Home Health Care 35hrs a week -- what a pipe dream! I don't know of a single qualifying person who receives this amount of HHA care paid for through Medicare - does anyone? Medicare reps told me it only paid for 3 visits a week - period - regardless of condition that's a whopping three hours (whoohoo). I didn't know about all this "agencies get to keep the money" policy NO REPS volunteered that tid-bit what little I've learned has been through what I could glean from their handbook and other fellow sufferers, err, clients.     Steph