This article is for:
- Cardiologists
- Primary care providers
- Discharge planners at acute care hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, and skilled nursing facilities
We're expanding both our home telemonitoring program and healthy meals program for eligible Medicare Advantage members with congestive heart failure diagnoses. For a full overview of these programs, please see our previous articles.
- Home telemonitoring program for heart failure patients to expand
- Meals, home telemonitoring available to heart failure patients
What's changing?
| Program | Change details |
|---|---|
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Home telemonitoring
Program description: |
Southcoast VNA has joined and has started accepting referrals as of March 1, 2020. See below for a full list of all home health care providers participating in this pilot program. |
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Healthy meals
Program description: |
Medicare Advantage members who don’t live in an area where Community Servings delivers can now get meals delivered via UPS. This provides greater access to this program. |
Home health care contacts for referrals for in-home telemonitoring
| Home health care organization participating in-home telemonitoring program | Contact for referrals |
|---|---|
| BAYADA Home Health Care | Phone: 1-508-778-8100 Fax: 1-508-778-5022 bayada.com |
| VNA Care—VNA Care Network & VNA of Boston | Phone: 1-800-728-1862 Fax: 1-774-778-1007 vnacare.org |
Home Health Foundation, a member of Wellforce, including:
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Phone: 1-978-552-4444 or 1-800-333-4799 Fax: 1-978-552-4401 (Fax their Express Referral Form) Homehealthfoundation.org |
| Southcoast VNA | Phone: 1-800-698-6877, option 3 Fax: 1-508-973-3241 Website: www.southcoastvna.org |
| These providers have a single contact for referrals | |
| Brockton VNA brocktonvna.org |
Visiting Nurse Associations of New England, Inc. (VNANE) Phone: 1-774-404-2205 Fax: 1-508-480-0055 Email (must be encrypted): bcbs@vnane.org Visiting Nurse Associations of New England, Inc. will contact us about your referral. |
| Community Nurse Home Care, Inc. communitynurse.com |
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| Community Visiting Nurse Agency, Inc. communityvna.com |
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| GVNA HealthCare gvnahealthcare.org |
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| Natick Walpole Visiting Nurse Association, Inc. nwvna.org |
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| Norwell Visiting Nurse Association, Inc. nvna.org |
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| Porchlight VNA/Home Care porchlighthomecare.org |
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| Visiting Nurse Community Health, Inc. thevisitingnurses.com |
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| VNA of Southern Worcester Co., Inc. vnaswc.org |
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Healthy meal referrals
- Contact Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts registered nurse, Kerry Nussbaum, at 1-617-246-4721.
- Fill out the Referral for Health Management Programs & Services form. Check off Medicare Advantage Case Management and note the reason for the referral in the notes section. Please fax to the Medicare Advantage number listed on the form.
Questions?
For questions about Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts’ program, call Tarcia Davis, RN, BSN, CCM, program manager in our case management department, at 1-617-246-4269.
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