Chronic Conditions
The goal of our Disease Management program is to support our members and caregivers with their care plan, get healthier, and improve their lives. Members and caregivers can learn more about their health and chronic conditions, and how you, or your loved ones can improve their health.
Chronic Conditions
Members and caregivers can learn more about their health and chronic conditions, and how you, or your loved ones can improve their health.
The chronic conditions that our Case Managers help with are:
Asthma
What is asthma?
- Asthma is a chronic lung disease that makes it harder to move air in and out of your lungs.
- Asthma can cause symptoms like wheezing, mucus production, coughing, shortness of breath, and tightness in your chest.
- There is no cure for asthma, but it can be managed
so you live a normal, healthy life.
How to take care of yourself
- Get your influenza and pneumonia vaccinations
- Know and stay away from asthma triggers
- Watch your breathing
- Follow up with your doctors
- Quit smoking or don’t start
- Know when you are having an attack and treat them early
- Take your medication as prescribed
Watch how much you use your quick-relief inhaler
How 22 Health can help
Health Risk Assessment
Get the most from your health plan benefits and complete our Health Risk Assessment. The answers to these questions will help your or your child’s Primary Care Provider (PCP) and our nurses know what you or your child need. Your information is private. The answers do not change you or your child’s benefits.
Disease Management Program
- Learn
- Learn
Our team can help you learn more about asthma, watch your symptoms, know your asthma triggers, and how to stay away from them. This is the best way to lower your need for medicines and stop asthma attacks.
Asthma Action Plan
We will also help you with an asthma action plan. This will include medicines and instructions for what to do when you are not feeling well, when you have asthma symptoms, and when your asthma symptoms are getting worse.
Our Case Managers and your providers will work with you to help you with good asthma control.
This would be:
- No asthma symptoms during the day or night
- No limits in activities or play
- No missed school or work
- Less attacks or flare ups
- No emergency room or hospital visits for asthma
- Less Need for Quick Relief Medicine
- Less Need for Quick Relief Medicine
Contact Us
For more information on our programs, please call Member Services at (866) 357-4082, TDD/TTY 711
or fill out the form on our Contact Us page.
Additional Resources
- American Lung Association (ALA)
- Community Care Plan Health Library
- Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
- What is asthma?
- Asthma is a chronic lung disease that makes it harder to move air in and out of your lungs.
- Asthma can cause symptoms like wheezing, mucus production, coughing, shortness of breath, and tightness in your chest.
There is no cure for asthma, but it can be managed so you live a normal, healthy life.
How to take care of yourself
Get your influenza and pneumonia vaccinations
Know and stay away from asthma triggers
Watch your breathing
Follow up with your doctors
Quit smoking or don’t start
Know when you are having an attack and treat them early
Take your medication as prescribed
Watch how much you use your quick-relief inhaler
How 22 Health can help
Health Risk Assessment
Get the most from your health plan benefits and complete our Health Risk Assessment. The answers to these questions will help your or your child’s Primary Care Provider (PCP) and our nurses know what you or your child need. Your information is private. The answers do not change you or your child’s benefits.
Disease Management Program
- Learn
Our team can help you learn more about asthma, watch your symptoms, know your asthma triggers, and how to stay away from them. This is the best way to lower your need for medicines and stop asthma attacks.
Asthma Action Plan
We will also help you with an asthma action plan. This will include medicines and instructions for what to do when you are not feeling well, when you have asthma symptoms, and when your asthma symptoms are getting worse.
Our Case Managers and your providers will work with you to help you with good asthma control. This would be:
- No asthma symptoms during the day or night
- No limits in activities or play
- No missed school or work
- Less attacks or flare ups
- No emergency room or hospital visits for asthma
- Less Need for Quick Relief Medicine
- Less Need for Quick Relief Medicine
Contact Us
For more information on our programs, please call Member Services at (866) 357-4082 (TTY 711) or fill out the form on our Contact Us page.
Additional Resources
Diabetes
What is Diabetes?
- Diabetes is a group of diseases that affect how your body uses blood sugar (glucose) and causes your blood sugar to be too high.
- Diabetes also affects how your body makes, or uses, insulin, and if your body doesn’t make enough, or doesn’t use it properly this causes your blood sugar to be high.
- Diabetes, if not controlled, can hurt the eyes, kidneys, nerves, and heart.
- There are different kinds of diabetes.
- Type 1 Diabetes is usually diagnosed early in life and is an autoimmune condition that stops the body from making insulin. Type 1 diabetes cannot be prevented, and once diagnosed, you need to take insulin every day to stay healthy.
- Type 2 Diabetes is the most common type of diabetes. It is generally diagnosed in adults but there has been an increase in people being diagnosed earlier in life. With Type 2 diabetes, the body is not using insulin properly. A healthy lifestyle can help prevent type 2 diabetes.
- Gestational Diabetes occurs during pregnancy, and usually goes away after the birth of the baby. Having gestational diabetes can increase risk for the mother and the baby. You can help avoid Gestational diabetes with a healthy lifestyle. Learn about our Maternity Management Program program.
How to take care of yourself
- Stop smoking or don’t start
- Follow up with your doctors, as directed
- Keep a healthy diet
- Get regular physical activity (as directed and approved by their doctor),
- Manage stress
- Have good sleep habits
- Ask your doctor questions to make sure you know how to take care of yourself
- If you have diabetes already, watch your blood glucose levels and report them to your doctor
- Take medications, as directed
- Follow the treatments that your doctor(s) prescribed for diabetes
Get your regular preventive care like eye exams, foot exams, dental care, lab work for your hemoglobin A1c levels and kidney health, and blood pressure monitoring
How 22 Health can help
Health Risk Assessment
Get the most from your health plan benefits and complete our Health Risk Assessment. The answers to these questions will help your or your child’s Primary Care Provider (PCP) and our nurses know what you or your child need. Your information is private. The answers do not change you or your child’s benefits.
Disease Management Program
Our team can help you learn how to prevent diabetes (type 2), like getting preventive health screenings that can detect prediabetes early. If you were already diagnosed with Type 1 or 2 diabetes, we can help you learn more about your type of diabetes, treatment options to talk with your doctor about, how to watch your symptoms, and what to do if you are not feeling well.
We can link you to services for preventive care and nutritional counseling. We can create a plan to help you eat well, reach and/or keep a healthy weight, stay active, and feel well.
Contact Us
For more information on our programs, please call Member Services at (866) 357-4082 (TTY 711) or fill out the form on our Contact Us page.You (or your child) will only be part of a program if you want to. You (or your child) can join or stop a program at any time by calling us.
Additional Resources
- Community Care Plan Health Library
- Diabetes: Differences Between Type 1 and 2
- Prediabetes
- Type 1 Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Children/Teens:
- Pregnancy
- Gestational Diabetes:
- Diabetes Self-Care (all types):
- A1c Test
- Albumin Urine Test
- Diabetes: Preventing High Blood Sugar Emergencies
- Diabetic Retinopathy
- Diabetic Retinopathy: Why Screening Matters (Video)
- Diabetes: Taking Care of Your Feet
- Diabetes: How Testing Helps You Stay in Your Range (Video)
- Diabetes: How Exercise Can Help (Video)
- Diabetes: How to Build Your Plate (Video)
- Diabetes: How Others Stay Motivated (Video)
- Diabetes: Tests to Watch for Complications
- How Others Manage Diabetes (Video)
- 4 Benefits of Healthy Eating (Video)
- American Diabetes Association
- Touched by Type I: They support people have a newly Type I Diabetes diagnosis. You can ask for a D-Box.
It’s a starter kit for people with Type I Diabetes. - National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases: What is Diabetes?
- Diversity in Diabetes: Create awareness and provide solutions to end health gaps and the lack of representation for diabetes
What is Diabetes?
- Diabetes is a group of diseases that affect how your body uses blood sugar (glucose) and causes your blood sugar to be too high.
- Diabetes also affects how your body makes, or uses, insulin, and if your body doesn’t make enough, or doesn’t use it properly this causes your blood sugar to be high.
- Diabetes, if not controlled, can hurt the eyes, kidneys, nerves, and heart.
- There are different kinds of diabetes.
- Type 1 Diabetes is usually diagnosed early in life and is an autoimmune condition that stops the body from making insulin. Type 1 diabetes cannot be prevented, and once diagnosed, you need to take insulin every day to stay healthy.
- Type 2 Diabetes is the most common type of diabetes. It is generally diagnosed in adults but there has been an increase in people being diagnosed earlier in life. With Type 2 diabetes, the body is not using insulin properly. A healthy lifestyle can help prevent type 2 diabetes.
Gestational Diabetes occurs during pregnancy, and usually goes away after the birth of the baby. Having gestational diabetes can increase risk for the mother and the baby. You can help avoid Gestational diabetes with a healthy lifestyle. Learn about our Before Baby and Beyond program.
How to take care of yourself
- Stop smoking or don’t start
- Follow up with your doctors, as directed
- Keep a healthy diet
- Get regular physical activity (as directed and approved by their doctor),
- Manage stress
- Have good sleep habits
- Ask your doctor questions to make sure you know how to take care of yourself
- If you have diabetes already, watch your blood glucose levels and report them to your doctor
- Take medications, as directed
- Follow the treatments that your doctor(s) prescribed for diabetes
Get your regular preventive care like eye exams, foot exams, dental care, lab work for your hemoglobin A1c levels and kidney health, and blood pressure monitoring
How 22 Health can help
Health Risk Assessment
Get the most from your health plan benefits and complete our Health Risk Assessment. The answers to these questions will help your or your child’s Primary Care Provider (PCP) and our nurses know what you or your child need. Your information is private. The answers do not change you or your child’s benefits.
Disease Management Program
Our team can help you learn how to prevent diabetes (type 2), like getting preventive health screenings that can detect prediabetes early. If you were already diagnosed with Type 1 or 2 diabetes, we can help you learn more about your type of diabetes, treatment options to talk with your doctor about, how to watch your symptoms, and what to do if you are not feeling well.
We can link you to services for preventive care and nutritional counseling. We can create a plan to help you eat well, reach and/or keep a healthy weight, stay active, and feel well.
Contact Us
For more information on our programs, please call Member Services at (866) 357-4082 (TTY 711) or fill out the form on our Contact Us page.You (or your child) will only be part of a program if you want to. You (or your child) can join or stop a program at any time by calling us.
Additional Resources
- CCP Health Library
- Diabetes: Differences Between Type 1 and 2
- Prediabetes
- Type 1 Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Children/Teens:
- Pregnancy
- Gestational Diabetes:
- Diabetes Self-Care (all types):
- A1c Test
- Albumin Urine Test
- Diabetes: Preventing High Blood Sugar Emergencies
- Diabetic Retinopathy
- Diabetic Retinopathy: Why Screening Matters (Video)
- Diabetes: Taking Care of Your Feet
- Diabetes: How Testing Helps You Stay in Your Range (Video)
- Diabetes: How Exercise Can Help (Video)
- Diabetes: How to Build Your Plate (Video)
- Diabetes: How Others Stay Motivated (Video)
- Diabetes: Tests to Watch for Complications
- How Others Manage Diabetes (Video)
- 4 Benefits of Healthy Eating (Video)
- American Diabetes Association
- Touched by Type I: They support people have a newly Type I Diabetes diagnosis. You can ask for a D-Box. It’s a starter kit for people with Type I Diabetes.
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- Diversity in Diabetes: Create awareness and provide solutions to end health gaps and the lack of representation for diabetes
Hypertension
What is hypertension?
- Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is when the force of your blood against the walls of your blood vessels is too high.
- Normal blood pressure is less than 120/80.
- Blood pressure of 130/80 or more means you have high blood pressure.
- If your blood pressure is high for too long, it can hurt your heart, blood vessels, and other areas of your body, like your eyes and kidneys. It can also increase your chance of having a heart attack or stroke.
How to take care of yourself
- Stop smoking or don’t start
- Follow up with your doctors, as directed
- Keep a healthy diet
- Get regular physical activity (as directed and approved by their doctor)
- Manage stress
- Have good sleep habits
- Ask your doctor questions to make sure you know how to take care of yourself
- Watch and lower how much sodium (salt) you eat. The American Heart Association recommends no more than
1500 mg of sodium (salt) per day. Read food labels. - Keep a healthy weight. If you are overweight, losing weight can help you lower your blood pressure.
- Watch how much alcohol you drink. Drinking too much alcohol can raise your blood pressure.
- Take medications, as directed
- Follow the treatments that your doctor(s) prescribed for diabetes
- Get your regular preventive care like yearly checkup, regular blood pressure monitoring, and lab work
Watch your blood pressure and let your doctor about any unusual results
How 22 Health can help you
Health Risk Assessment
Get the most from your health plan benefits and complete our Health Risk Assessment. The answers to these questions will help your or your child’s Primary Care Provider (PCP) and our nurses know what you or your child need. Your information is private. The answers do not change you or your child’s benefits.
Disease Management Program
Our team can help you learn about high blood pressure, how to control it, treatment options to talk to your doctor about, how to watch your symptoms, and what to do if you are not feeling well. We can link you to services for preventive care and nutritional counseling. We can create a plan to help you eat right, reach and/or keep a healthy weight, stay active, and feel well.
Contact Us
For more information on our programs, please call Member Services at (866) 357-4082 (TTY 711) or fill out the form on our Contact Us page. You (or your child) will only be part of a program if you want to. You (or your child) can join or stop a program at any time by calling us.
Additional Resources
- Community Care Plan Health Library
- American Heart Association
What is hypertension?
- Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is when the force of your blood against the walls of your blood vessels is too high.
- Normal blood pressure is less than 120/80.
- Blood pressure of 130/80 or more means you have a high blood pressure.
If your blood pressure is high for too long, it can hurt your heart, blood vessels, and other areas of your body, like your eyes and kidneys. It can also increase your chance of having a heart attack or stroke.
How to take care of yourself
- Stop smoking or don’t start
- Follow up with your doctors, as directed
- Keep a healthy diet
- Get regular physical activity (as directed and approved by their doctor),
- Manage stress
- Have good sleep habits
- Ask your doctor questions to make sure you know how to take care of yourself
- Watch and lower how much sodium (salt) you eat. The American Heart Association recommends no more than 1500 mg of sodium (salt) per day. Read food labels.
- Keep a healthy weight. If you are overweight, losing weight can help you lower your blood pressure.
- Watch how much alcohol you drink. Drinking too much alcohol can raise your blood pressure.
- Take medications, as directed
- Follow the treatments that your doctor(s) prescribed for diabetes
- Get your regular preventive care like yearly checkup, regular blood pressure monitoring, and lab work
Watch your blood pressure and let your doctor about any unusual results
How 22 Health can help you
Health Risk Assessment
Get the most from your health plan benefits and complete our Health Risk Assessment. The answers to these questions will help your or your child’s Primary Care Provider (PCP) and our nurses know what you or your child need. Your information is private. The answers do not change you or your child’s benefits.
Disease Management Program
Our team can help you learn about high blood pressure, how to control it, treatment options to talk to your doctor about, how to watch your symptoms, and what to do if you are not feeling well. We can link you to services for preventive care and nutritional counseling. We can create a plan to help you eat right, reach and/or keep a healthy weight, stay active, and feel well.
Contact Us
For more information on our programs, please call Member Services at (866) 357-4082 (TTY 711) or fill out the form on our Contact Us page. You (or your child) will only be part of a program if you want to. You (or your child) can join or stop a program at any time by calling us.
Additional Resources