San Diego Patient Advocates
A San Diego patient advocate is a trained professional who handles the coordination, paperwork, and phone calls around your care, covered by Medicare. Careway works with patients across San Diego County by phone and video.
Advocates work with you by phone and video. There is no office to travel to.
What makes care here hard to manage
Several large systems, each self-contained
San Diego care concentrates in a few large systems that each work well internally. The friction appears when a patient's doctors are in two of them, which is common.
- Moves records between systems that do not share them
- Tracks referrals across system boundaries through to a booked appointment
- Confirms prior authorizations before procedures
A county spread wide
San Diego County reaches far inland and north, and for patients outside the coastal core the specialist visit is a long trip.
- Arranges transportation for patients in the inland and North County areas
- Uses telehealth where a visit does not need to be in person
- Connects families to county aging and independence services
Where San Diego patients get care
- Sharp HealthCare
- Scripps Health
- UC San Diego Health
- Kaiser Permanente
Questions from San Diego
Yes. Medicare's care management programs are Medicare-covered services available to eligible patients here. If you have a supplemental insurance policy (Medigap) or Medicaid, your standard coinsurance may be fully covered.
Not necessarily. Your advocate works with you by phone and video and knows the coverage rules, programs, and health systems in your state. There is no office to travel to, and no appointment you have to drive across town for.
Other cities in California
Talk to someone who can take this on
Checking whether you qualify takes a couple of minutes. If we are not the right fit, we will tell you plainly.
Covered by Medicare. If you have a supplemental policy (Medigap) or Medicaid, your standard coinsurance may be fully covered.