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Our guides provide you with the skills, checklists and tips for caring for your loved one. Our content is authored by highly qualified registered nurses with a combined total of 60 years of expertise in various healthcare settings such as acute, community and home care.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Outpatient Mental Health Care

    Ongoing group and individual therapy sessions are critical for mental health maintenance and are offered at outpatient facilities.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Outpatient Hospital Services

    Many services and procedures today are provided as outpatient in ambulatory service areas of the hospital or at freestanding health services centers.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Outpatient Hospital Observation

    Observation is typically 23 hours and initiated to determine whether the patient needs admitted to the hospital (inpatient) or can be discharged.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Outpatient Diagnostic Tests and Therapeutic Services and Supplies

    Includes therapeutic radiology services, diagnostic radiology services, diagnostic procedures and tests, surgical and splinting supplies, and lab services.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Opioid Treatment Program Services (OTP)

    Treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD). Tolerance and dependence are physical, addiction is psychological, and both need support to overcome.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Obesity Screening and Therapy to Promote Sustained Weight Loss

    Intensive counseling for weight loss. Obesity is a disease that increases health risks, worsens existing conditions, and requires treatment.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Medicare Part B Prescription Drugs

    No cost Original Medicare Part B prescription drug coverage through the health plan. Part B drugs are those not usually self-administered.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP)

    A diabetes prevention program using structured health behavior change. 9 in 10 cases of diabetes can be avoided by making key lifestyle changes.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT)

    Annual counseling in disease management through MNT for those with diabetes, renal disease, or kidney transplant.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Inpatient Stay: Covered Services Received in a Hospital or SNF during a Non-Covered Inpatient Stay

    If inpatient benefits are exhausted or the inpatient stay is not reasonable and necessary, the stay will not be covered - but certain services may.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Inpatient Services in a Psychiatric Hospital

    Inpatient psychiatric care can be provided in a psychiatric hospital or within a general hospital, under voluntary or involuntary admission.

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  • VNS Health EasyCare Plus: Inpatient Hospital Care

    Inpatient care is defined as admission into the hospital under inpatient status.

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Helpful is an app to make caregiving easier. We integrate your loved one’s insurance benefits, medical records and caregiving guides into an immediate, accessible and user-friendly experience. Helpful supports your care needs by eliminating administrative tasks and providing technology to support your caregiving experience.

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