Short version: Does anyone know the process for becoming an independent care provider paid through Medicare/Medicaid, as opposed to going through a company? If not, could anyone recommend a better place/forum to ask?
So, my wife is the private tutor/caregiver for a high school-age student diagnosed with moderately-severe Autism, along with several associated syndromes. She has been privately hired by the family, but due to several factors the family is now going to have government supplements pay for the student's individualized care.
So my wife has signed up with a company to do basically the job she has always been doing (picking him up from school, taking him to therapists, preparing lunch - he feeds himself but needs help with food preparation and healthy choices, and tutoring both academic and social - all of this in a classroom at our home - before returning him to his family home) only through the company. The problem is that the company (Rescare) is paying her about half of what the family used to pay.
My wife is highly qualified - and though she doesn't have like nursing certification or anything like that, she has a number of certifications related to disability care and is willing to meet other requirements. If anyone has any information about how she could become an independent healthcare provider through Medicare/Medicaid, I would be eternally grateful.
Thank you all
So, my wife is the private tutor/caregiver for a high school-age student diagnosed with moderately-severe Autism, along with several associated syndromes. She has been privately hired by the family, but due to several factors the family is now going to have government supplements pay for the student's individualized care.
So my wife has signed up with a company to do basically the job she has always been doing (picking him up from school, taking him to therapists, preparing lunch - he feeds himself but needs help with food preparation and healthy choices, and tutoring both academic and social - all of this in a classroom at our home - before returning him to his family home) only through the company. The problem is that the company (Rescare) is paying her about half of what the family used to pay.
My wife is highly qualified - and though she doesn't have like nursing certification or anything like that, she has a number of certifications related to disability care and is willing to meet other requirements. If anyone has any information about how she could become an independent healthcare provider through Medicare/Medicaid, I would be eternally grateful.
Thank you all