Patient Care Plan Services Help Manage Healthcare System Affairs

How Can You Know What You Don’t Know About Healthcare?

The Patient Care Plan offers you information, advice, assistance and advocacy services on healthcare system issues. Healthcare system professionals will tell you what you need to know, advise you on what you need to do, assist you in doing what needs to be done, and, if you need help, do it for you.

How can you know what you don’t know about doctors, hospitals and healthcare? How can you know when you need a second opinion? How can you know what the cost should be? How can you know the value proposition of one surgeon versus another?

How can you know what to do when your doctor or hospital haven’t been paid? Or when your health insurance company says your claim has been denied? Or when your credit is tarnished or ruined by unpaid medical bills you thought were covered? How can you know what you don’t know?

How can you know what to do, where to go, who to see and what to say? How can you find someone you can count on to be on your side in our complex healthcare system?

You could enlist an experienced or trained family member. Or, a qualified friend you can trust and on whom you can rely. Or, you could use the professional healthcare advocacy and concierge services offered by our low-cost Advocacy Plan. You can make our team your team to help you mind your healthcare business better, in less time and at lower cost than you could yourself.

How Is This Different From Medical Self Care?

Medical Self Care prevention features focus on medical symptoms and needs to better evaluate care options, to help you make better decisions about what care is needed. Medical Self Care management features focus on information to help make better cost-value decisions about medical services, in effect, about being a more informed and better value shopper for medical care.

Patient Care advocacy service features focus more on the complex system, the system service providers and the financial and insurance side of healthcare. In effect, these services deal more with the business aspects of healthcare. There may be some overlap of services with Medical Self Care in the topic research and provider referral areas.

What services may be in the Advocacy Plan?

This Plan can include the following features:

• Health Counselor Services – Questions, Inquiries;

• Physician / Medical Service Provider Reports and Referrals;

• Insurance Disputes and Claims Resolution Services;

• Medical Services Fee and Bill Payment Negotiations;

• Healthcare / Medicare Plan Summaries and Explanations;

• Medical Bill Alternative Funding Services;

• Hospitalization Preparation, Stay and Release Guides;

• Medical Service Locator and Referrals;

• Convalescent, Nursing Home and Hospice Locator and Referrals;

• Pharmacy Assistance Enrollment Services.

How Will Patient Care Services Benefit Individual Members and Employees?

Research reports on consumer directed healthcare plans have shown that consumers mind their healthcare affairs better than anyone else – once they know how. Initially, many have had learning curve problems. The objectives and the effect of Advocacy services are to show you as a consumer what to do and how to do it, so you can quickly overcome that learning hurdle.

As a Patient Care Plan member, you’ll benefit because you are less distracted by healthcare issues. You’ll have the peace of mind of inherently knowing that you have the resources available to you to better handle your healthcare business affairs in less time and at lower cost.

Among the greatest benefits for healthcare advocacy plan members are the negotiation and resolution of fees, of payment terms and of insurance claims disputes. These financial services can involve settlements that run into six figures or more.

Half of all personal bankruptcies in the US are related to medical bills that patients cannot pay. Seventy-five percent of such patients who are forced into bankruptcy had health insurance. They simply did not know how to effectively pursue claims in order to secure payment or reimbursement that was due for medical expenses.

With Patient Care Plan services, you will have our team of professionals who know the healthcare system, know how it works and know how to work the system for your benefit. Make our team your team. That’s peace of mind.

How Will Patient Care Benefit Employers?

Patient Care Plan services will relieve employer executives and human resources officials of the stress of wrestling with employee healthcare problems and of continually being the bearer of bad news. This program offers employers options they haven’t had. It gives them relief from the employee healthcare burden while helping employees to better manage their own healthcare.

Even employers who do not offer an employee healthcare insurance plan can benefit by providing employees with the low-cost Patient Care Plan. The Patient Care Plan is a primary foundation block that supports your Fitness Culture Plan, whether at home or in the workplace.

To learn more about Fitness Culture, go to Fitness Culture.

For information on Preventive Health and Fitness, go to Preventive Health.

For ideas on Medical Self Care Prevention, go to Self Care Prevention.

For ideas on Medical Self Care Management, go to Self Care Management.

To learn about Elder Care and Caregiver Services, go to Elder Care Plan.

If you have questions or need additional information, go to our Contact Us Page.

WARNING: NEVER CANCEL YOUR CURRENT INSURANCE UNTIL REPLACEMENT COVERAGE IS APPROVED AND IN PLACE.

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To get a health plan proposal, go to the appropriate quote guide for individuals, or for families, or for groups.