PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
ED  - Palmer, Robert M.
AU  - Oldenquist, Gwen W.
AU  - Scott, Linda
AU  - Finucane, Thomas E.
TI  - Home care: What a physician needs to know
DP  - 2001 May 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 433--440
VI  - 68
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/68/5/433.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/68/5/433.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med2001 May 01; 68
AB  - When elderly patients might benefit from home care, a key question is whether Medicare will pay for it. We describe what physicians can do to avoid the pitfalls in qualifying appropriate patients for Medicare’s Home Health Services and hospice programs, and the basic features of these two programs. We also describe the experience and methods used in prototype programs that provide home-based hospital-level care, and that revive a supposedly lost art: physician house calls.