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P.O. Box 1268 • Statesville, North Carolina 28677 • (104) 873-7291
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IREDELL COUNTY HOME HEALTH PROGRAM
FEES FOR SERVICE - POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
The Iredell County Home Health Program is organized with the purpose of providing
skilled nursing service and other therapeutic and support services to those who
need it in their homes and cannot otherwise secure it. No practices or procedures
established by the Iredell County Home Health Program should interfere with ful-
filling the obligations of the agency in relation to care of the ill at home as
set forth in the agency purpose.
I. Patients and their families should be given pertinent information on cost and
how the service is financed. The following points should be covered in pro-
viding information:
A. The Iredell County Home Health Agency is a non-profit agency, therefore,
charges for services are based on cost, without profit.
B. Free, part -pay and non -chargeable services are made possible through funds
granted or allocated to the Health Department to assure that persons needing
service may receive it and that services directed toward the promotion
of health and well being may be provided.
II. Policies related to charges to be made to recipients of service: i.e.,
individual clients or patients and families:
A. Non -Chargeable Services:'
1. One or two nursing assessment visits to help patient and/or family
secure needed medical (physician) services.
2. Situations in which service is initiated on behalf of a family without
the family's knowledge of the fee practices of the agency. In such
instances the family is not obligated to pay for the first visit. How-
ever, payment for the visit is accepted if the family wants to pay
for service received.
B. Chargeable Services:
1. The following services are subject to charge.
u, Nursing, physical therapy, speech therapy, social work and home health
aide service provided for care and/or instruction related to disease
or disability.