Chronic Care Management
Improve Your Quality of Life.
Don’t let a chronic condition dominate every facet of your life. The providers at Carlinville Area Hospital & Clinics can help you regain control of your everyday activities and enhance your quality of life. Chronic care management is a Medicare-covered service providing ongoing, coordinated care for patients with two or more chronic conditions. Designed to enhance the quality of life for patients with chronic conditions, chronic care management allows patients to access healthcare more easily and creates management plans wholly personalized to each patient.
Personalized Plans & Guidance.
Our care coordinators work directly with patients as well as their family and caregivers to provide education about their conditions and streamline access to certain medical services. While care coordinators do not perform any medical procedures themselves, they can provide more information on how patients can access these services or perform them at home.
Services available through chronic care management include:
- Structured recording of patient health information
- Maintaining comprehensive electronic care plans
- Managing care transitions and other care management services
- Coordinating and sharing patient health information promptly both within and outside the practice
Care coordinators can also help improve communications between patients and their providers, help patients find transportation to and from appointments, help patients access free or low-cost medications, and review patients’ care plans.
To qualify for chronic care management, patients must be diagnosed with two or more chronic conditions and must have a referral from a primary care provider and coverage through Medicare or a Medicare Advantage plan. Examples of chronic conditions, as broadly defined by the Centers for Disease Control, may include:
- Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases
- Arthritis (both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis)
- Asthma
- Atrial fibrillation
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Depression
- Diabetes
- Glaucoma
- HIV/AIDS
- Hypertension
- Substance use disorders
Access the care you need to improve your quality of life and your well-being. To learn more about chronic care management or to see if you’re eligible, contact your primary care provider at the Rural Health Clinics today.