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Program Benefits
Benefits to Your Patients
- Patients selected for Medicare Health Support will receive regular phone calls from a team of registered nurses to:
- Remind them of key care standards, such as regular eye exams and A1C tests.
- Conduct general health and poly-pharmacy assessments.
- Answer questions about medicines, test results or instructions they receive from the different doctors they see.
- Discuss hospital, home or nursing care issues that they may find confusing.
- Discuss fall prevention techniques.
- Screen for depression.
- Understand qualify-of-life issues and help problem-solve.
- Provide end-of-life and palliative care information.
- A seven-day-a-week toll-free help line for patients and their designated family members or caregivers.
- Regular mailings of standards-of-care reminders and other educational materials specific to their condition.
Benefits to You
- Real-time data and customized reports from the Medicare Health Support system to help track your patients' health information and progress toward specific goals.
- A dedicated program manager to help you identify patients who are not following recognized standards of care.
- An advisory council of local practicing physicians to help ensure that the program runs smoothly and meets your needs.
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