My father is a nursing home resident in NY. He is covered under Medicaid and Medicare. I was wondering what the rules are for nursing homes providing basic haircuts?
His nursing home says that they charge for haircuts. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Thanks for your response! If Medicaid pays for the basic haircuts, which is what my father needs, how come the nursing homes charge the residents for it? Why would they receive two payments?
Since this is a Medicaid related, please note that each State handles their own Medicaid rules, regulations, and programs.
For ladies, in my experience, going over to the on site beauty shoppe visit is not and is paid from their personal needs allowance in the NH trust fund in their name or family pays the hairdresser personally. For men, if it’s really a barber shop type of service, like a hair cut with shave or facial hair trim, so it’s grooming, it’s similar so paid from his PNA.
sometimes I’d see elders at the 2 NH my mom was in with very very unkept hair (men & women) as they had no PNA funds set up to get them on regular barber/ beauty visits. It was so sad. I think the Salvation Army would come and do barebones haircuts for the men. The ladies got put into ponytails or braids.