Is it common to charge for travel expenses and travel time when an in-home health aide has to travel as far as one hour each way?
Expert Answer by Merrily Orsini
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.
Do home health care aides commonly charge for travel expenses?


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