Senior care options (SCO) is a kind of comprehensive health plan. All of the services that are normally paid through Medicare and Mass Health are covered by SCO.
Services provided by senior care options
Through a network of providers and a senior care organization, the SCO plan provides services to its members. Combining health care services and social support services, this plan offers quality health care to the senior citizens enrolled under the SCO. This a kind of geriatric support service coordinated with care. Even the families and caregivers are provided with respite care. An important advantage is rendered to the eligible members over traditional fee-for-service care with no co-pays for the enrolled members.
Eligibility criteria
The enrollment process managed in this health care program is voluntary. A member is allowed to deregister from the plan any month of the year. It is important to check the Eligibility Verification System (EVS) before enrolling in the plan. The following criteria need to be fulfilled in order to comply with the requirements of the senior care options plan:
- The member has to be a senior citizen, that is, her/his age should be 65 years or above.
- The member cannot be a long-term patient of any hospital or rehabilitation home while acquiring this plan. They should live at home or in a long-term care facility. There shouldn’t be any intellectual disability in the applicant.
- Under Mass Health Regulations Act, they are not subjected to a six-month deductible period.
- The applicant should not be a sufferer of an end-stage chronic ailment.
- The member needs to reside in an area served by the senior care options plan.
Mass Health had noticed carefully the particular areas of physical weakness among the senior citizens of the country which they face on a regular basis. Thus, this proposed program helps to serve these daily courses of check-ups and medication to its members for a better and healthier old age life.