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Skilled home health nursing care is the provision of intermittent skilled services to a member in the home for the purpose of restoring and maintaining his or her maximal level of function and health.
Your doctor has decided that you need daily skilled care given by, or under the direct supervision of, skilled nursing or therapy staff. If you're in the SNF for skilled rehabilitation services only, your care is considered daily care even if these therapy services are offered just 5 or 6 days a week, as long as you need and get the therapy services each day they're offered. You get these skilled services in a SNF that's certified by Medicare. You need these skilled services for a medical condition that was either: A hospital-related medical condition. A condition that started while you were getting care in the skilled nursing facility for a hospital-related medical condition. Your doctor may order observation services to help decide whether you need to be admitted to the hospital as an inpatient or can be discharged.