[tri-med] Re: LVN nursing questions...

Thereseann,

>Are any of you familiar with switching the LVN or nursing 
>hours from a respite company to ourselves...I'm guessing 
>there is added paperwork on my end...But I am curious..

I'm not sure if I know the answer to this or not.  Are the
hours in question actually "respite hours" that are just being 
performed by a skilled nurse because of the level of expertise 
needed to provide them?  Or are they more like skilled nursing 
care hours?

We never had any nursing care hours, just respite one.  So all I
can really address would be for switching to the self vendored 
respite program through Regional Center.  If that's what you're 
talking about then it's pretty easy.  You have to attend a one
evening orientation and sign a "Home and Community Based-Service 
Provider Agreement".  You'll be assigned a vendor number for 
submitting claims, and given a starter supply of them.  Then you 
pay the respite worker directly, and get them to sign off on the 
back portion of a simple claim that you'll submit to your local
Regional Center.  You have to keep records of respite claims for
5yrs.  I just photo copied the claim forms before I sent them.
Haven't actually submitted one for probably a couple of years now
though, since I got Miss P back into the Easter Seal's respite camp
program.  They do all of the paper work for me except to request
funding authorization for them from our worker.  But yes, if this is
what you're talking about it is well worth the effort.  I wasn't 
getting to use any of my monthly hours when I was relying on the
sitter service agency to find me a sitter.  Never failed, if we made
actual plans, especially ones that required buying tickets for 
something, then even if I got a confirmation that we had a sitter, 
no one would show up.  But if we'd made no plans at all, then we might
get one.

  
Fawna, mom to Philina 22yrs (PT6p & Moya Moya Syndrome), & 
research coordinator for Tracking Rare Incidence Syndromes 
(TRIS) Project http://home.mindspring.com/~fawna33/





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