Home Health. What is it?
A Company who provides medical supplies for home use. In our case it's Grace Health Care of Gulfport.
They bring the suction machines, medical supplies, sterile equipment that we need to provide for Bodie's needs.
They charge the supplies to: our Insurance,(now cancelled) or Medicaid.
We only use what we need & we re-use the things we can wash, for example: feeding syringes, electrode monitor connections, etc. The stuff we can't re-use is used once & then thrown away, for example: suction catheters, Mepilex, (trach dressing) trach cleaning supplies, etc.
Apparently, there is a limit set by some bean counter in some office who knows nothing about taking care of a special needs child. How do I know this? Because Bodie is over his "limit" according to the Home Heath care Company. I'm waiting to see this list...
So when we went over this month & Medicaid told our Home Health Company they wouldn't pay for the supplies, what did they do...? Just quit delivering to us.
After three hours on the phone this morning I THINK I have this issue resolved.
We shall see.
RH
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