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Is All Durable Medical Equipment Covered by Insurance?

The simple answer is no. Medicare Part B (medical insurance) covers medically necessary durable medical equipment (DME) that your doctor prescribes for use in your home. Your physician, nurse practitioner (NP), physician’s assistant (PA) or certified nurse specialist (CNS) can prescribe medical equipment for a patient. Medicare is considered the driver when it comes to …

13 Things Your Nail Salon Doesn't Want You to Know

These secrets about your manicure and pedicure might make you second guess your next nail salon visit

Small but mighty: Impella pump saves heart attack patient

Aaron Horne, Jr., MD of Methodist Health System used the Impella pump to save the life of a heart attack victim.

Things to NEVER Lie to Your Doctor About

How much you smoke, drink, eat, exercise and whether you use protection during sex or while out in the sun matters. Doctors weigh in on what matters most.

10 Horrifying Things Doctors Don't Tell You

As a modern culture, we tend to put our faith wholeheartedly in doctors. They're the experts, and more often than not we take their advice without question

5 potentially deadly body pains you should never ignore

Nearly everyone experiences a headache or leg cramp on occasion. But when do these aches warrant a visit to the doctor's office or hospital?

How Home Health Can Improve Fall Rates and Readmissions

Home health can play a significant role in reducing the number of emergency room readmissions among seniors after a fall, according to a new study focused on why older adults end up back at the hos…

How Home Health Providers Are Using Data in End-of-Life Conversations

For many home health patients who are chronically ill, there is a natural progression that takes place: home health is provided, eventually a palliative review is conducted after some period of dec…

Patient-Centered Strategies to Managing Geriatric Chronic Pain in Home Health

The current opioid epidemic in the United States has renewed focus on the importance of non-pharmacologic approaches to management of chronic pain. Physical therapists in home health find the treatment of elderly with chronic pain challenging because of t

How Uber Might Soon Be Delivering Home Health Workers

Soon, Uber may be a more common way for home health workers to reach their clients. The popular ride sharing company recently partnered with Circulation, a Boston-based health care transportation p…

Home Health Research Takes New Cues from Virtual Reality

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin are making home health a “virtual reality.” Through a $2.5 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, a group compr…

The Teach Back Method : Home Healthcare Now

HCAF Members: Test Your Home Health Aides on Communication

As a benefit of membership, HCAF provides agencies with In-Home Aides-Partners in Quality Care, a monthly publication that addresses relevant topics for home health aides. Topics addressed in In-Ho…

How to Choose a Home Health Aide

Information on how to choose a home health aide before making a hiring decision.

‘Hospital at home’ patient: ‘They spoiled me. I couldn’t have asked…

“Hospital at Home” is expanding to other patients who don’t require acute in-hospital care. Here’s how one patient recovered with the aid of the program.

Home health system helps give anticoagulated patients greater control

Home health system helps give anticoagulated patients greater controlFor most people, coagulation is one of the human body’s most unnoticed processes, although it is one of the most important. When a wound occurs and a blood vessel is damaged, a blood clot forms to stop the bleeding, which allows healing to beginAbnormal blood clotting can have life-threatening consequences for those suffering from conditions such…