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Home health is a wide range of health care services that you can get in your home for an illness or injury. Home health care is usually less expensive, more convenient, and just as effective as care you get in a hospital or skilled nursing facility.

Potentially covered services include:

• Patient and caregiver education

• Monitoring serious illness and unstable health status

• Part-time or intermittent home health aide care (only if you’re also getting skilled nursing care, physical therapy, speech-language pathology services, or occupational therapy at the same time), like:

• Help with walking

• Bathing or grooming

• Changing bed linens

• Feeding