67:54:06:09Covered services -- Personal attendant.

Covered services of a personal attendant are those services listed in the case service plan which include services such as the following: (1) Practicing infection control methods; (2) Handling and disposing of body fluids; (3) Bathing techniques including bed, tub, and shower; (4) Caring for hair, including shaving; (5) Maintaining oral hygiene, including brushing teeth and cleaning dentures; (6) Dressing and undressing a consumer; (7) Assisting with toileting; (8) Caring for a consumer who is incontinent; (9) Feeding or assisting a consumer with eating, unless there is another person in the home who is able to perform the task; (10) Planning and preparing meals including shopping for and purchasing food, unless there is another person in the home who is able to perform the task; (11) Performing routine eye care; (12) Taking a consumer's temperature; (13) Caring of nails and feet; (14) Applying an ace wrap and anti-embolic stockings; (15) Assisting the consumer apply or remove a prosthesis or orthotic; (16) Assisting a consumer with self-administration of medications; (17) Changing dressings on noninfected sores; (18) Caring for skin including giving back rubs; (19) Turning and positioning the consumer in bed; (20) Transferring the consumer; (21) Maintaining the consumer's home in a clean and safe condition, unless there is another person in the home who is able to perform the task; (22) Making a wrinkle-free bed, unless there is another person in the home who is able to perform the task; (23) Laundering and mending clothes, unless there is another person in the home who is able to perform the task; (24) Assisting the consumer with paying bills, balancing a checkbook, and managing a home budget, unless there is another person in the home who is able to perform the task; (25) Performing range of motion exercises designed for the specific consumer; (26) Performing routine ostomy care; (27) Assisting with a bladder and bowel program; (28) Assisting the consumer into and out of a vehicle; (29) Providing ventilator management if the personal attendant is a family member. A consumer who was receiving ventilator management by someone other than a family member before the effective date of this rule change is not affected by this change; (30) Performing tracheostomy care if the personal attendant is a family member. A consumer who was receiving tracheostomy care by someone other than a family member before the effective date of this rule change is not affected by this change; (31) Providing chest physiotherapy; (32) Providing nebulizer therapy; and (33) Applying topical medications.

Source: 21 SDR 230, effective July 13, 1995; 26 SDR 99, effective January 30, 2000; 30 SDR 135, effective March 16, 2004.