What does Understood Care do?

Understood Care provides one-to-one patient advocacy for Medicare members and caregivers, including help with benefits, appointments, care coordination, medical bills, insurance questions, denials, and paperwork.

How can a patient advocate help with Managing Kidney Disease — Understood Care?

Understood Care advocates help with managing kidney disease — understood care by explaining options, organizing paperwork, coordinating care, and helping families understand Medicare coverage and next steps.

Does Understood Care work with Medicare patients?

Yes. Understood Care focuses on Medicare patients and their families, with advocates who understand Medicare, Medicare Advantage, care coordination, coverage rules, billing issues, and appeal pathways.

Understood Care is a virtual patient-advocacy service for Medicare members. Unlike case management or brokers, our advocates cover claims, appeals, and care. Compared to helplines, it is one-to-one.

Managing Kidney Disease

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I want to come on and talk about something that's actually really, really prevalent in healthcare today, kidney disease. There's so many different diagnoses that come out having problems with the kidneys. Your doctor's probably really careful about monitoring which medications you take if you have kidney disease.

The most common tests that you're going to take or the lab tests that are ordered are BUN and creatinine levels, and these determine what stage you're at if you do have chronic kidney disease. There are preventable things that you can do to improve these numbers, and that's something you can talk to your doctor about.

We can help you with the management of it, whether you're at stage one or stage four. If you're getting dialysis, we can coordinate transportation, your appointments. We can work with your doctor to make sure that you're getting your medications timely because it's not something you want to run out of.

You want to make sure that you stay on any medications prescribed for kidney disease. There's a lot that we can do to help you manage your disease to where you can stay as healthy as possible.

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