Coordinating your care
Coordinating care across multiple providers can improve your treatment, health outcomes, and overall patient experience. Coordinated care:
- Organizes your care across all your providers
- Reduces health care costs by avoiding repeated tests and services
- Prevents medical errors
- Helps find potential Medicare fraud early
Original Medicare covers several services that help coordinate your care and guide you through the health care system, including:
- Chronic care management services: Help manage long-lasting conditions or diseases
- Community health integration services: Help address non-medical factors (like limited access to food or your living environment) that may be impacting your health
- Principal illness navigation services: Help you understand your medical condition or diagnosis and manage your care
- Transitional care management services: Manage the transition from an inpatient hospital stay back into the community
How Medicare supports coordinated care
In addition to covering services that coordinate your care, there are other ways Medicare helps your providers work together to support your health and well-being.