Home health aide services
A home health aide provides personal care — bathing, grooming, dressing, and hygiene assistance — to patients who are unable to manage these activities independently due to illness, injury, or disability. Kassy Health aides are trained and supervised by the patient's primary case manager nurse, ensuring clinical continuity and safety at every visit.
What our home health aides do
Home health aides provide hands-on personal care as directed by the supervising nurse's care plan:
- Bathing — bed bath, shower assist, or tub bath with safety supervision
- Grooming — hair care, shaving, oral hygiene assistance
- Dressing and undressing
- Toileting and continence assistance
- Transfers and ambulation assistance (with direction from PT)
- Range-of-motion exercises as instructed by PT or OT
- Vital sign monitoring under nurse supervision
- Light meal preparation for the patient's visit
- Light housekeeping essential to patient health (patient's area only)
- Observation and reporting of changes in patient condition to the supervising nurse
Important limitations to understand
Medicare home health aides provide clinically supervised personal care. They are not companions and do not provide household services unrelated to the patient's care:
Aides do not administer medications, perform wound care, do household cleaning unrelated to the patient's direct care area, run errands, or provide overnight care. These boundaries are set by Medicare conditions of participation and are strictly observed.
If your family needs assistance beyond the Medicare home health aide benefit — companionship, errand running, or more extensive household support — our social worker can connect you with private-pay home care agencies in Central Florida. We want every family to have the full picture.
Every aide is supervised by a registered nurse
The Medicare Conditions of Participation require that home health aides be supervised by a registered nurse at least every 14 days. At Kassy Health, the aide's supervising nurse is the patient's primary case manager — the same RN who manages the overall plan of care, communicates with the physician, and is the family's primary clinical contact.
This means that aide supervision is not a compliance formality at Kassy Health — it is a clinical touchpoint. The case manager nurse reviews the aide's observations at every supervision visit, adjusts the aide care plan as the patient's condition changes, and ensures the aide's work integrates seamlessly with the rest of the care team's goals.
Source: 42 CFR § 484.80 — Conditions of participation: Home health aide services.
What does home health aide service cost?
For patients receiving an active Medicare home health episode with a qualifying skilled service, home health aide visits are covered at 100% — no copay, no deductible. Aide hours must be part-time or intermittent (fewer than 8 hours per day and 28 hours per week in most cases).
Note that Medicare home health aide is distinct from private-duty aide services. If your family needs full-time or 24-hour aide coverage, that is not covered by Medicare and would be a private-pay arrangement. Kassy Health will be transparent about this distinction during intake so your family can plan appropriately.