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The CCR is intended to foster and improve continuity of patient care, reduce medical errors, increase patients' roles in managing their health, enable epidemic monitoring and public health research, and ensure at least a minimum standard of secure health information transportability.

Continuity of care is a process that allows continued care for members who change plans, or whose plans or provider(s) have been terminated from the participating provider network.

What is Continuity of Care? ​Continuity of care for new members means that you may be able to continue seeing your current doctor or therapist for up to 12 months after you have been enrolled in a Medi-Cal managed care health plan. A Medi-Cal managed care health plan will be referred to as the “Plan.” ​

For example, care managers may arrange for a home nurse to visit or for an aide to help with housecleaning and preparation of meals. They may locate a pharmacy that delivers medications or arrange for transportation to and from the doctor's office.

You must document the following information, at a minimum, in the beneficiary's medical record: • Date the beneficiary was discharged; • Date you made an interactive contact with the beneficiary and/or caregiver; • Date you furnished the face-to-face visit; and • The complexity of medical decision making (moderate or ...

Transitional Care Planning is a patient-centered, interdisciplinary process that begins with an initial assessment of the patient's potential needs at the time of admission and continues throughout the patient's stay.

There are three types of continuity that are present in all healthcare settings: Informational, management and relational.

Usually this means that you must change doctors, medical groups, or hospitals. But in some cases, you may be able to keep your doctor, medical group, or hospital for a limited time. This is called "continuity of care." To receive continuity of care, you must call your health plan to ask for continuity of care.