Admission to home health services is based on your meeting admission criteria set by Medicare/Medicaid, other insurance carriers, and HomeCare of Hutchinson. These criteria are:

• You must be under the care of a physician. All services must be ordered and approved by your physician.
• All services ordered must be reasonable and medically necessary to the treatment of your illness or injury.
• You must need a skilled primary service.
• Skilled nursing and/or home health aid services must be provided on an intermittent or part-time basis, unless the skilled need is therapy.
• You must live in Reno or Rice Counties or within a 30-mile radius of Hutchinson.
• You must be homebound. A person is considered homebound if it takes a considerable and taxing effort to leave the home. Absences from the home are of short duration and infrequent.
• You and/or your family must desire home health care services.
• Your home must be adequate fro safe and effective care.
• Other criteria set by the insurance carrier.