Medicare home health benefits require which conditions?

• A. It covers any care requested by the recipient
• B. It does not require the patient to be homebound
• C. It covers intermittent, not continuous care
• D. It covers all around-the-clock care

Answer: (C)

Medicare home health benefits are designed to provide medically necessary skilled services on a part‑time, intermittent basis to someone who is homebound and under a physician‑ordered plan of care. Because the care is intended to be intermittent rather than continuous, it comes in scheduled visits rather than around‑the‑clock supervision. This is why describing the benefits as covering intermittent, not continuous, care is the best, most accurate fit. The other ideas—covering any request, not requiring homebound status, or providing 24/7 care—don't align with how Medicare home health is structured.