# Medical model

A term used when buying adult day care.

The licensure tier of adult day programs offering nursing and health services.

States split adult day services into social programs, activities, meals, and supervision, and medical or health models adding nursing care, therapies, and medication management, each with its own licensure, staffing ratios, and reimbursement rates. The model decides which payers a program can bill and at what per diem, so it is the first structural fact of any listing. A medical-model license is harder to hold and worth more, and converting a social program upward is a licensing project, not a menu change.

Part of: Buying an Adult Day Care (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-an-adult-day-care)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-an-adult-day-care/terms/medical-model
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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