Does Medicare pay for Golden Life Home Health Care?

Yes, if a doctor certifies the patient is homebound and needs intermittent skilled nursing or therapy. Medicare then pays Golden Life Home Health Care directly for covered home health visits and the patient pays nothing for them. Durable medical equipment is billed separately at 20% of the approved amount. Home health does not cover round-the-clock care, meals, or help with bathing and dressing on its own.

What services does Golden Life Home Health Care provide?

CMS records this agency as offering skilled nursing care and physical therapy. Which of them you actually receive depends on what the doctor writes into the plan of care.

Golden Life Home Health Care

1006 Ash Ste 2B, Mc Allen, TX 78501

9566184653

Not graded

We have not graded this agency. CMS has published no patient survey and no quality measure at all for it, usually because it is new, very small, or served too few patients for anything to be reported. We would rather say we do not know than give it a middling grade it has not earned.

Ownership: PROPRIETARY
Medicare certified: May 2012
Patients surveyed: n/a
CCN: 747691

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Golden Life Home Health Care, ElderGrade ungraded summary card

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What this costs you

If a doctor certifies the patient is homebound and needs skilled nursing or therapy, Medicare pays this agency directly and the patient pays nothing for the covered visits. Equipment is billed separately at 20% of the Medicare-approved amount. Home health does not pay for round-the-clock care, meals, or help with bathing and dressing on its own, those are the costs families are most often surprised by. Medicare spends 0.66× the national average per episode of care at this agency. That is what the federal government spends, not what a family pays, and it is not part of our grade.

What patients said

CMS has not published survey results for this agency. It only reports them once enough patients have completed the questionnaire, so smaller agencies often have none. That is a gap in the data, not a mark against the agency, ask them directly how many patients they served last year and whether they run their own survey.

Services offered

✓ Skilled nursing care
✓ Physical therapy
· Occupational therapy
· Speech pathology
· Home health aide
· Medical social services

Published, and deliberately not graded on

Before weighting anything we checked which direction each CMS measure actually runs, by comparing it against the patient survey across every agency in the country. These did not survive that check. They are here because they are part of the public record, and out of the grade because scoring them would make our letters worse, not better.

Medicare spending per episode: 0.66× the national average

Questions families ask about Golden Life Home Health Care

Does Medicare pay for Golden Life Home Health Care?: Yes, if a doctor certifies the patient is homebound and needs intermittent skilled nursing or therapy. Medicare then pays Golden Life Home Health Care directly for covered home health visits and the patient pays nothing for them. Durable medical equipment is billed separately at 20% of the approved amount. Home health does not cover round-the-clock care, meals, or help with bathing and dressing on its own.
What services does Golden Life Home Health Care provide?: CMS records this agency as offering skilled nursing care and physical therapy. Which of them you actually receive depends on what the doctor writes into the plan of care.

Source: the CMS Home Health Care Agencies file and the HHCAHPS Patient Survey, published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. ElderGrade takes no payment from agencies, chains or placement agencies, and holds no photographs of this provider. Graded 3 November 2026. How we source our data.