Sec. 5. (a) As used in this chapter, "home health services" means services that:
(1) are provided to a patient by:
(A) a home health agency; or
(B) another person under an arrangement with a home health agency;
in the temporary or permanent residence of the patient; and
(2) either, are required by law to be:
(A) ordered by a licensed physician, a licensed dentist, a licensed chiropractor, a licensed podiatrist, or a licensed optometrist for the service to be performed; or
(B) performed only by a health care professional.
(b) The term includes the following:
(1) Nursing treatment and procedures.
(2) Physical therapy.
(3) Occupational therapy.
(4) Speech therapy.
(5) Medical social services.
(6) Home health aide services.
(7) Other therapeutic services.
(c) The term does not apply to the following:
(1) Services provided by a physician licensed under IC 25-22.5.
(2) Incidental services provided by a licensed health facility to patients of the licensed health facility.
(3) Services provided by employers or membership organizations using health care professionals for their employees, members, and families of the employees or members if the health or home care services are not the predominant purpose of the employer or a membership organization's business.
(4) Nonmedical nursing care given in accordance with the tenets and practice of a recognized church or religious denomination to a patient who depends upon healing by prayer and spiritual means alone in accordance with the tenets and practices of the patient's church or religious denomination.
(5) Services that are allowed to be performed by an attendant under IC 16-27-1-10.
(6) Authorized services provided by a personal services attendant under IC 12-10-17.1.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-10-2.2-5.]
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.10. Amended by P.L.146-1996, SEC.2; P.L.255-2001, SEC.14; P.L.212-2005, SEC.10; P.L.141-2006, SEC.81.
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