Medicare’s Advanced Primary Care Management (APCM) program helps your primary care team coordinate and personalize your care between visits. From preventive care planning and medication reviews to chronic condition support and follow-up after hospital stays, APCM keeps your care team working for you all month long. Enrollment is voluntary, you keep your same providers, and you can cancel at any time. Watch Dr. Glenn Rauchwarg of TPMG Discovery Park Family Medicine explain how APCM works, what it costs, and whether it’s right for you.
Download our Medicare APCM Patient FAQs to learn more about the program, including costs and enrollment.Â
What is Medicare?
Medicare is a federal health insurance program that provides healthcare coverage at a small cost. Medicare is funded by the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund.Â
Who Qualifies for Medicare?  
Nearly every medical facility in the United States accepts Medicare assistance. To qualify for Medicare, you must fall into one of the following categories:
- Adults age 65 or older
- Young people with disabilities
- People with End-Stage Renal Disease
Click here for more information on Medicare or visit Medicare.gov.
What is MyMedicare.gov?Â
MyMedicare.gov is a free and secure online service offered by Medicare for accessing personalized information about your Medicare benefits and services. This website can create a list of your favorite TPMG health care physicians and even add your current TPMG Primary Care Physician, as well as offer information regarding eligibility, entitlement, and preventative services. You can, also, check your health and prescription drug enrollment information, check your Medicare claims, and manage your personal health information. Enjoy this access at any time! Register at MyMedicare.gov today!
Why Choose a Primary Clinician on MyMedicare.gov?
Your primary clinician is a health care professional – doctor, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner – who’s responsible for coordinating your overall care, regardless of where you choose to get services. He/She may be able to help you make health care decisions, which can improve how you manage your health care and lead to better results.
By choosing a primary clinician on MyMedicare.gov, you give your physician access to tools or services that are only available to patients of healthcare professionals participating in an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) or other Medicare alternative payment models. ACOs are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare professionals working together to provide you with high-quality, coordinated healthcare.
Patient Benefits for Using MyMedicare.gov
You have the option to choose any professional as your primary clinician, regardless of specialty, whether it’s your TPMG Primary Care Physician, allergist, immunologist, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, etc. You’re able to choose ANY healthcare professional who accepts Medicare.
Medicare offers an Annual Wellness Exam for those who have been enrolled in Medicare for more than 12 months. The annual wellness exam is at no cost to you unless other acute/chronic conditions are present (e.g., colds, injuries, high blood pressure, diabetes, etc.) and should not be confused with an annual physical exam. Click here to learn more.
Lastly, you may choose another healthcare professional as your primary clinician at any time. Your choice of a primary clinician will remain the same unless you make a change on MyMedicare.gov.
Here are instructions to help you choose a primary care physician on MyMedicare.gov.
Voluntary Alignment
Medicare beneficiaries can voluntarily align with their primary care provider on MyMedicare.gov. Voluntary alignment increases patient-centered care by prioritizing patient choice when attributing patients to a practice and better engages beneficiaries in their health care. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) uses beneficiaries’ attestations as the prioritized method of attribution for practices participating in the TPMG model of care. Here is more information about Medicare Voluntary Alignment.
Tidewater Accountable Care Organization Name and Location
Tidewater Accountable Care Organization
Tidewater Medical Center
860 Omni Boulevard, Suite 401
Newport News, Virginia 23606
Tidewater Accountable Care Organization Primary Contact
Contact: Sibyl Wilson, COO
Phone: (757) 232 – 8764
Email: Sibby.Wilson@tpmgpc.com