You Have The Right To Choose
Your Home Health Care Service Provider

Federal Hospital law guarantees a person's right to choose the home care provider that he or she wants in their home. There are many options available and we respect your right to choose the services that meet your unique home care needs.

If home care is recommended:

• The hospital is required to give you a list of all home care agencies that can service you at home.
• All patients have the right of freedom of choice of providers
• Discharge Planners and Case Managers have legal and ethical obligations to honor this right.

Federal statutes of the Medicare and Medicaid programs guarantee Medicare beneficiaries and Medicaid recipients the right of freedom of choice of providers. When these patients voluntarily express a preference for a home health agency these choices must be honored.

The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 requires hospitals to develop a list of Home Health Agencies that meet the following criteria:

• Medicare certified
• Provide services in geographic areas where patients reside
• Ask to be on the list
• If hospitals have a disclosable financial interest in an agency placed on the list it must be disclosed on the list
• This list must be given to all patients who may benefit from home health services so they can choose the agency they wish to provide services to them
• Hospitals may lose reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid programs if they do not meet the Hospital Conditions of Participation (COP's)

Choices for Health Care Professional Care

You may be involved in Health care in some professional capacity, whether a healthcare professional or an advisor to someone who needs to make a choice about homecare. We understand the important role that you serve as educators, facilitators and resources for coordinating the services and products that help patients and their families. Our goal is to be your home care partner and make sure our services support your care management goals. Choosing a home care provider is an important decision. We at Interim Health Care can help you make the right choice by becoming more informed about what services can be performed at home.

Save You Time

• We have skilled client service staff that coordinates with other agencies and services to arrange for comprehensive home care.
• We respond quickly and will notify you if we can accept a case.
• We provide a comprehensive scope of service-intermittent and continuous care, pediatrics and non medical.
• We work with Medicare and Medicaid programs, managed care plans, worker's comp, long term care companies and trust cases
• We will communicate with you in any manner you choose: notes, summaries, emails, phone calls, or faxes.

Assures Patient Satisfaction

• We have specialty programs in pediatrics, orthopedics, wound care and others.
• We use an integrated protocol, charting and patient teaching programs called InterPath.
• We educate physicians on the procedures and skills provided by our nurses.
• We provide good care using proven patient and family teaching material that increase competence and confidence.

Achieves Good Outcomes

Not all patients get better. We are committed to planning toward, managing and measuring our results against achieving the optimal outcome. With our group of comprehensive services we can provide continuous care for the patient.