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24.5.2.1 Home Health Aide Visits
HHA visits are intended to provide hands-on personal care, performance of simple procedures as an extension of therapy or nursing services, assistance in ambulation or exercises, and assistance in administering medications that are ordinarily self-administered.
Any HHA services offered by a home health agency must be provided by a qualified HHA under the supervision of a qualified licensed individual (RN, PT, OT) employed by the home health agency.
For all clients, HHA visits may be provided in the following locations:
• Home of the client, parent, guardian, or caregiver.
•Foster homes.
•Independent living arrangements.
The duties of an HHA during a visit include, but are not limited to:
•Ambulation.
•Assistance with medication that is ordinarily self-administered.
•Assisting with nutrition and fluid intake.
•Completing appropriate documentation.
•Exercise.
•Household services essential to the client's health care at home.
•Obtaining and recording the client's vital signs (temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure).
•Observation, reporting and documentation of the client's status, and the care or service furnished.
•Personal care (hygiene and grooming) including but not limited to:
•Sponge, tub or shower bath.
•Shampoo, sink, tub or bed bath.
•Nail and skin care.
•Oral hygiene.
•Positioning.
•Range of motion.
•Reporting changes in the client's condition and needs.
•Safe transfer.
•Toileting and elimination care.
Use procedure code C-G0156 when billing for HHA services.
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