§ 16-27-1-5 — "Home health services"

(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 advanced
practice registered nurse, a licensed physician assistant, 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) Community based palliative care (as defined in IC 16-25-4.7-1).
(8) 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.]

Legislative History

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; P.L.207-2021, SEC.12; P.L.147-2023, SEC.11.