For Physicians

Refer a Patient

Two minutes of your time. We take it from there — family contact, benefit verification, GAPP paperwork and an RN assessment — and the plan of care comes back to you for signature.

What we need

Enough to accept the referral

You do not need a complete packet to refer. Send what is in front of you, and we will collect the rest from the family and from your office once we have a signed release.

Patient age and primary diagnosis
The skilled nursing need you are documenting
Georgia Medicaid status, if known
A family contact name and phone number
Your name, practice and the best way to reach you
County of residence, so we can confirm we staff it well

Who is appropriate: Georgia Medicaid members under 21 with a documented skilled nursing need — ventilator dependence, tracheostomy, complex airway, seizure disorders, enteral feeding and other medically fragile conditions. See the full list.

Hospital discharge pending? Call (201) 696-8934 and say so. A clinician answers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and we move discharge referrals ahead of the queue.

A physician reviewing a child's plan of care with a HomeCare Roots nurse.

Licensed, Medicaid-approved pediatric home nursing across Georgia

What happens next

After your referral lands

The administrative weight of a GAPP case sits with us, not with your staff.

We contact the family

Within one business day. We explain GAPP, answer the cost question, and confirm they want to proceed before anything else moves.

We verify benefits

We confirm Medicaid eligibility and assemble the GAPP funding packet ourselves. Your office does not chase authorisations for us.

RN assessment in the home

One of our registered nurses assesses the child where the care will happen, and identifies what the home actually needs.

Plan of care back to you

You receive the proposed plan of care for signature, and ongoing clinical communication from the nurse who is in the home.

Referral

Send a referral

Our intake team reviews every referral and follows up within one business day.

Referring clinician

Practice or facility

Phone

NPI Optional. It speeds up our intake, but we can look it up.

Urgency

Patient age GAPP serves Medicaid members under 21.

Patient county

Primary diagnosis

Service needed

Notes for our intake team

I confirm I am authorised to make this referral, and that HomeCare Roots may contact me about it.

Do not transmit PHI through this form. Send only what we need to make contact. We will take the clinical detail — records, orders, identifiers — over a secure channel once intake reaches you. To send records now, call (201) 696-8934 or fax +1 (404) 973-0737.

Prefer to call or fax? Phone (201) 696-8934 · Fax +1 (404) 973-0737 · Email info@homecareroots.com. A clinician answers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Discharge pending? Call, do not type

We staff Fulton, Cobb, Gwinnett, DeKalb, Clayton and counties across Georgia. Tell us it is a discharge and we move it to the front.

(201) 696-8934 Our Clinical Model