Expand the patient profile you're able to serve
Medicare Part B covers home health services for many homebound adults, even if their condition isn’t expected to improve. RubyWell helps home health agencies serve these patients and deliver medically necessary Part B home health benefits.
Activate a home health aide workforce
Over 37 million Americans provide unpaid eldercare to a family member or friend. They’re experienced, committed, and struggling under the financial strain of caregiving. RubyWell is on a mission to connect family caregivers with access to training and compensation, infusing certified home health aides into communities across the country.
Partner with RubyWell to streamline your ongoing home health business
Our HHA partners have access to an innovative operations hub that:
Confirms care recipient benefit eligibility
Streamlines reauthorization workflows
Provides necessary documentation of patient status
Tech you can trust
RubyWell protects against fraud, waste, and abuse with:
Patient condition tracking
Care delivery tracking and details
Rigorous audit practices
We’re committed to maintaining the highest standards of security and data protection. As part of this commitment, RubyWell complies with HIPAA regulations and we’re working toward SOC 2 certification by December 31, 2024.
About RubyWell
RubyWell is helping Home Health Agencies serve families in The Forgotten Middle: those who can't afford to pay out-of-pocket for long term care but don't qualify for Medicaid. By partnering with us, you can offer existing and new patients the covered home health services they need, and provide their family caregivers the compensation they deserve.
Home Health Agency FAQs
Traditionally, Medicare only covered skilled care that led to improvement in a patient's condition. In 2011, the Center for Medicare Advocacy and Vermont Legal Aid brought a class action lawsuit on behalf of beneficiaries throughout the country who were denied Medicare coverage for skilled care because they were not improving.
In 2013, the federal district court approved a settlement agreement with the CMS. The settlement concluded that Medicare covers skilled care to maintain an individual's condition or slow decline.1 This standard applies to home health care. CMS updated its policy manuals and website and issued notifications regarding this policy change. But a lot of providers are still unaware of this Medicare benefit.
1CMS Joins the Center for Medicare Advocacy to Advance Access to Medicare-Covered Skilled Care to Maintain One's Condition or Slow Decline. Center for Medicare Advocacy. February 15, 2024. Available online at https://medicareadvocacy.org/know-jimmo-new-cms-implementation-activity/
RubyWell helps you verify at intake and at reauthorization whether the patient is, and remains, medically eligible for ongoing home health care covered by Part B benefits. We work with you to complete the documentation required for delivery of ongoing home health, and skilled management of the care plan. We also provide efficient workflows for billing, using this information as inputs.
RubyWell partners with Medicare-approved home health agencies that have a star rating of 3.5 (out of 5) or above.