Section 443.2. Medical Assistance Payments for Home Health Care.--The following medical assistance payments shall be made in behalf of eligible persons whose care in the home has been prescribed by a physician, chiropractor or podiatrist:
(1) Rates established by the department for post-hospital home care, as specified by regulations of the department adopted under Title XIX of the Federal Social Security Act for not more than one hundred eighty days following a period of hospitalization, if such care is related to the reason the person was hospitalized and if given by a hospital as comprehensive, hospital type care in a patient's home;
(2) Rates established by the department for home health care services if such services are furnished by a voluntary or governmental health agency.
(443.2 amended Nov. 28, 1973, P.L.364, No.128)