Medicare Coverage: Home Health Care for Women with Osteoporosis
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Home Health Care for Women with Osteoporosis
You pay 20% of the Medicare-approved cost of the drug.
You pay $0 for the visit by a home health nurse to administer the drug.
Under Medicare's home health coverage, Medicare helps pay for an injectable drug for osteoporosis in women who are eligible for Medicare Part B, who meet the criteria for the Medicare home health benefit, and who have a bone fracture that a doctor certifies was related to post-menopausal osteoporosis. You must be certified by a doctor as unable to learn, or as physically or mentally incapable to give yourself the drug by injection, and that family and/or caregivers are unable or unwilling to give the drug.
Medicare also covers the visit by a home health nurse to administer the drug.
Medicare is the name given to a health
insurance program administered by the United States government,
covering people who are either age 65 and over, or who meet other special
criteria.
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