N.J. Admin. Code § 10:54-5.18

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 21, November 4, 2024

Section 10:54-5.18 - Home Care Services; Personal Care Assistant Services (PCA)

(a) Personal care assistant services may be provided by a Medicare-certified, licensed home health agency or by an accredited proprietary or voluntary non-profit homemaker agency approved to participate as a provider of services in the New Jersey Medicaid/NJ FamilyCare program, in accordance with 10:60-1.2.

(b) Personal care assistant services are health related tasks performed in a beneficiary's home, prescribed by a physician in accordance with the patient's written plan of care, and provided by an individual who is:

1. Certified as a homemaker/home health aide by the New Jersey State Board of Nursing; and

2. Supervised by a registered professional nurse; and

3. Not a member of the patient's family.

(c) The purpose of personal care assistant services is to accommodate long-term chronic or maintenance health care, as opposed to the short-term skilled care required for some acute illnesses.

N.J. Admin. Code § 10:54-5.18

Amended by R.2001 d.51, effective 2/5/2001.
See: 32 N.J.R. 3929(a), 33 N.J.R. 555(a).
In (b), substituted "beneficiary's" for "recipient's" preceding "home," in the introductory paragraph.
Amended by R.2012 d.124, effective 7/2/2012.
See: 43 N.J.R. 1477(a), 44 N.J.R. 1884(a).
In (a), substituted "Medicare-certified" for "Medicare certified" and inserted "/NJ FamilyCare".