8835
| States Not Applicable: | Replaced By: |
| CA, NY, TX | Not Applicable |
| State Exceptions to the National Code: | |
| GA, MA, NJ, OR, VA | |
| Established: | Retained: |
| December 1938 | Not Applicable |
| Discontinued: | NCCI Schedule and Group: |
| Not Applicable | Schedule 35, Group 351 |
PHRASEOLOGY HOME, PUBLIC AND TRAVELING HEALTHCARE—ALL EMPLOYEES
(N/A GA, MA[ ___ ])
NAICS Code(s):
(For reference only. Not to be used for classification of risks for workers compensation purposes.)
621610—Home Health Care Services
Description:
Code 8835 is assigned to both public and privately owned enterprises engaged in furnishing healthcare services in the homes of individual patients. The employees rendering such services can be registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nurses’ aides, social workers, therapists, and home health aides. Employees of this nature are principally engaged in administering medications, intravenous therapy and injections, wound care, checking vital signs of patients, giving physical therapy treatments, educating, and counseling, etc.
Home infusion pharmacies manufacture infusion/intravenous pharmacy solutions. These solutions, along with related equipment, are delivered to patients' locations. These risks may also employ nurses who educate the patient on proper use of the product. This process may take place in a hospital (with a patient that is about to get discharged) or at the patient's home. The home visit may include changing medical dressings, administering infusion pharmacy solution, cleaning the treatment area, and additional patient education. The preparation of the infusion products is assigned to the appropriate pharmaceutical preparation code (e.g., Code 4611 or Code 4825). The visiting nurses are assigned to Code 8835.
Code 8835 also is assigned to visiting nurses employed by insurance companies who are engaged in administering physical therapy or other forms of medical assistance to claimants.
Code 8835 is not assignable to employees of a temporary labor contractor unless these employees perform their duties in private residences. Employees of a temporary labor contractor furnished to and contracted by a nursing or convalescent home are assigned to Code 8829, the nursing home classification, while employees furnished to a hospital are assigned to the appropriate hospital classification, either Code 8833 for professional employees or Code 9040 for all other employees. Home healthcare providers operating as temporary labor contractors are assigned to Code 8835 if their services are furnished to and hired by an individual who resides in a nursing or convalescent home.
Certain individuals who perform services for the Code 8835 risk may perform these services as contract employees. The status of these individuals as to whether they are employees or independent contractors may vary from state to state and among individual employers in a state. As such, their employment status for workers compensation purposes must be determined based upon individual employment relationships between various insureds and their contracted personnel and the laws of individual jurisdictions. The determination as to whether the individual is an employee for workers compensation purposes is not made by NCCI.
CROSS-REF. HOMEMAKER SERVICE—PHYSICAL ASSISTANCE
(N/A GA, MA, OR, VA)
| Note: |
Applies to businesses or individuals providing homemaker and companion services, while physically assisting convalescents, aged, acutely or chronically ill or disabled persons in the activities of daily living. |
Description:
Code 8835 is assigned to both public and privately owned businesses that provide physical assistance in the activities of daily living such as physically assisting a household member with walking or using prescribed equipment; physically assisting a household member with bowel or bladder needs; physically assisting a household member with bathing, personal hygiene, dressing, or grooming; physically assisting a household member with meal preparation, eating, and clean-up; physically assisting in transferring a household member in and out of bed; and physically assisting in the body repositioning of a household member. Duties may also include performing household duties such as cooking, laundry, shopping, and housekeeping. The home healthcare aide or personal care provider may occasionally check patients’ pulse rates and temperatures, organize medications, empty bedpans, and clean catheters.