Guest guest Posted July 10, 2002 Report Share Posted July 10, 2002 Ginger, You say that your husband has hospice and that Medicare pays for it all. What does it involve. Does hospice mean 24/7 care by someone in your home of the patient? My father has Medicare which pays for 80% of all hospital related expenses. His secondary insurance, Oxford pays for the supplemental costs (after a great deal of struggle of course). But I pay for his full time care giver. It is appalling that there is no way to pay for home health care through insurance...unless of course one has LTC, which no one even thought about 20 years ago. How is everyone managing the expenses.....help!!! ___________________________________________________ Simone Seth Global Technology Legal Risk 14 Wall Street, 3rd Floor, New York, N.Y. 10005 Mail Stop: NYC04--0312 Email: simone.seth@... Off: Mobile: Home: Assistant: Jarmilka Cleary 1- ____________________________________________________ -- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 10, 2002 Report Share Posted July 10, 2002 Hi Simone, Hospice sends a nurse 2 times a week to check patients condition and bring meds and supplies. There is always someone on call for emergencies, and a nurse will come anytime for emergencies. An aide comes 3 times a week for bathing, shaving etc. She changes sheets, bacically any small housekeeping stuff you ask her to do. They have volunteer sitters available, a social worker and a minister. You have to meeet certain criteria and someone mentioned before- " six months to live " We have been with Hospice 17 months now. But the Dr. thought we should get in the program, so we are. Hope that answers your questions - if you have more, please ask. Re: Digest Number 1626 > > Ginger, > You say that your husband has hospice and that Medicare pays for it all. What does it involve. Does hospice mean 24/7 care by someone in your home of the patient? My father has Medicare which pays for 80% of all hospital related expenses. His secondary insurance, Oxford pays for the supplemental costs (after a great deal of struggle of course). But I pay for his full time care giver. It is appalling that there is no way to pay for home health care through insurance...unless of course one has LTC, which no one even thought about 20 years ago. How is everyone managing the expenses.....help!!! > > ___________________________________________________ > Simone Seth > Global Technology Legal Risk > 14 Wall Street, 3rd Floor, New York, N.Y. 10005 > Mail Stop: NYC04--0312 > Email: simone.seth@... > > Off: Mobile: Home: > > Assistant: Jarmilka Cleary 1- > ____________________________________________________ > > > -- > > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. > > > > If you do not wish to belong to shydrager, you may > unsubscribe by sending a blank email to > > shydrager-unsubscribe > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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