Do home health care aides commonly charge for travel expenses?

Home health aides are paid by the hour or by the visit. When a patient or client lives a distance away from the agency, or from a major metropolitan area where there is adequate public transportation, it is common to charge either a set fee for travel within a certain radius or to charge actual mileage, which is based on the IRS reimbursed rate of $.55 per mile as of Jan 1, 2009. These travel expenses for home health aides are necessary and important so it is feasible to have an aide travel to get to a job, which sometimes is only for a short time period.