Enrolling in Silverado Supportive Care ensures proactive, compassionate support, adding an extra layer of medical care as chronic illnesses progress.
Key Benefits & Why They Matter
- Additional Clinical Oversight
Why it Matters: Progressive diseases lead to increasingly complex medical needs. Having an additional team of medical professionals in addition to your primary care physician offers an extra layer of support to regularly assess symptoms and medications—with the goal of preventing complications before they arise. - Proactive, Symptom-Focused Care to Enhance Comfort & Wellbeing
Why it Matters: The supportive care team works to help manage common symptoms such as chronic pain, agitation, medication sensitivity, and sleep disturbances. This proactive approach helps adjust care plans before symptoms become severe, supporting comfort and quality of life. - 24/7 Access to Care & Enhanced Communication
Why it Matters: Medical needs don’t always happen during business hours. Silverado Supportive Care provides 24/7 triage support, meaning:- Immediate assessment of any change in condition
- Timely medical orders or interventions
- A supportive care clinician can be dispatched to the patient’s location—even in the middle of the night
- This proactive approach has been shown to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations. Additionally, the supportive care team maintains open communication with the patient’s primary care physician to ensure their ongoing care needs are managed effectively.
- Coordination of Care Across Healthcare Providers
Why it Matters: The supportive care team focuses on preventing unnecessary hospitalizations through proactive care and symptom management. In the event you or your loved one requires hospitalization or specialized care, the supportive care team will coordinate communication between emergency departments, hospitalists and specialists. This enhanced support helps reduce hospital visits, medication complications, and stress for both the patient and their family. - Enhancing the Care Experience with Specialized Support
Why it Matters: Silverado Supportive Care further enhances clinical support by providing timely medical orders for medications, equipment, or additional services when medically necessary. Patients and families can feel confident knowing that there is access to an additional layer of symptom management and personalized attention. - Medicare Covers This Benefit
Why it Matters: Many don’t realize that Medicare covers supportive care services for individuals with serious illnesses. Simply having a diagnosis is qualification for this benefit. This means additional medical oversight with minimal out-of-pocket cost is available—an opportunity to ensure a higher level of care as needs evolve.
Helping Navigate Chronic Illnesses with Confidence
Silverado Supportive Care is designed to provide an additional layer of medical support and symptom management, ensuring the patient’s needs are met with expertise and compassion. By enrolling, you’re taking advantage of a Medicare-provided benefit that helps navigate the challenges of caring for a life-limiting condition with greater peace of mind
Why Palliative Care Matters
The symptoms of chronic illness require specialized, compassionate, and proactive care to help maintain dignity, comfort, and quality of life throughout the progression of the disease. Enrolling in Silverado Supportive Care’s service adds an extra layer of medical support to help manage these challenges more effectively.
Since Medicare covers this benefit, we’d love to walk you through how it works and review the explanation of benefits with you.
Cost to Families:
Palliative care is covered by Medicare with standard co-pays, similar to co-pays for physical therapy or specialty services. Secondary insurance may help to reduce these costs.
