Home Care Questions Families Ask Focus Family Care

Home health care is medical and non-medical care delivered in a person's home to help them recover from illness, manage a chronic condition, or with daily living. Focus Family Care provides both skilled home health care (nursing and therapy) and non-medical home care (personal care and companionship).

Home health care includes skilled nursing, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, home health aide services, personal care, and companion care. Focus Family Care provides all of these across South Florida under registered-nurse supervision.

Home care in South Florida costs about $28–$35 per hour for private-pay clients in 2026, and 24-hour care runs roughly $5,400–$6,400 per week. Medicare, Medicaid, VA benefits, and long-term care insurance often reduce this to $0. Focus Family Care gives a free quote at (561) 693-1311.

Medicare pays for home health care when a doctor orders skilled care and certifies the patient as homebound. It covers skilled nursing, therapy, and home health aide support, but not ongoing 24-hour custodial care. Focus Family Care is Medicare-certified.

Medicare covers home health care in renewable 60-day certification periods, for as long as the patient still needs skilled care and remains homebound. Focus Family Care manages recertification with the physician.

Yes. Florida Medicaid covers skilled nursing, home health aides, and personal care for eligible members, including long-term care through the Statewide Medicaid Managed Care LTC program. Focus Family Care is a Florida Medicaid provider and verifies coverage for free.

Medicare, Florida Medicaid, long-term care insurance, and many private plans cover home health care. Focus Family Care accepts more than 100 plans and verifies your coverage at no charge before care begins.

Yes. When it is medically necessary and ordered by a doctor, Medicare may cover a home health aide for a limited time after surgery, alongside skilled nursing. Focus Family Care coordinates post-surgical care with your physician.

Some Florida Medicaid programs and long-term care insurance policies allow payment for caregiving. Focus Family Care can help families understand whether their situation qualifies.

Focus Family Care can complete an in-home assessment and begin non-medical home care within 24 hours, because it does not require a physician's order. Skilled care begins once a physician's order is in place.

No. Focus Family Care cares for all ages (children, teenagers, young adults, and adults, as well as seniors) including pediatric nursing, autism care, and support for adults with disabilities.

Yes. Every Focus Family Care caregiver passes a Florida Level 2 (fingerprint-based) background screening before entering a client's home, and works under registered-nurse supervision.