Home health aid vs care provider

Differences between home health aid and care provider duties and responsibilities

Home health aid example responsibilities.

• Clean house, cook, run errands, take to doctor appointments
• Prepare for HIPAA and JCAHO reviews, ensuring require brochures and pamphlets are available to patients in all clinics.
• Conduct insurance verifications for Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance patients.
• Perform ADL's, medication administration, pulmonary therapy, daily physiotherapy.
• Provide physical and emotional support and companionship to senior adults in degenerative loss of memory and/or motor functions.
• Obtain household supplies and run daily errands.
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Care provider example responsibilities.

• Manage provider network to include verifying claims and benefits for healthcare providers/members and insurance companies.
• Aid and facilitate higher functioning patients reach their fullest potential while managing behavioral episodes as needed.
• Accompany to medical appointments, administer medications, assist with ADL's, community integration, personal care, and therapeutic activities
• Review appeals for Medicare non-participating providers following CMS specific guidelines for these providers.
• Provide direct patient care to critical and non-critical emergency department patients as an experience EMT-Paramedic.
• Change tracheal tube and catheter.
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