OUR PATIENTS
First Choice Community Medical Services keeps you at home. Medicare requires our patients be “homebound,” this allows us to visit the patient where they are most comfortable, in their home. Although “homebound” sounds like a harsh term, it just means that it must be a taxing effort for our patients to go to a traditional PCP office. To become a patient of First Choice, if your loved one is able to leave their home, it should require the assistance of others. It will not effect eligibility to become a patient of our practice if your loved one enjoys going out to lunch with family or getting their hair done at their favorite salon, as long as they cannot safely and independently go out.
We check insurance for every patient that fills out our paperwork before we accept a patient. This is because we do not want our patients to receive unseemly bills, we do care about making sure we are not putting our patients in a financially unstable situation. Because of how we are credentialed, our patients generally have PPO insurance plans.
How to become a First Choice patient
To become a First Choice Community Medical Service patient, please download and fill out the New Patient Packet and have the appropriate HCP* sign the forms.
*HCP stands for Health Care Proxy. This would be the designated person(s), whether it is the patient or trusted loved one(s), that can make the medical decisions for our potential patient.
While anyone can help to fill out these forms, the HCP signing the consent forms must be designated as the primary Health Care Proxy (in the event that there is more than one in place.)
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Once you have completed the “New Patient Packet,” please return it to using one of these methods:
Email to: contact_us@firstchoicecommunity.com
Mail to our office at:
First Choice Community Medical Services, P.C.
575 Turnpike Street, Suite 25
North Andover, MA 01845
Fax to:
(978) 290-4822
OUR LOCATIONS
The majority of our clients live in Assisted Living Facilities, commonly known as an “ALF.”
This type of housing provides several benefits including meals, and many personal care services, such as dressing, bathing, medication reminders and housecleaning.
Additionally, there may be 24-hour assistance available for residents, adding security for the resident and their loved ones without subjecting the resident to a strictly institutional environment.
Some ALFs have a unit for individuals who struggle with Alzheimer’s, dementia or behavioral-health issues.
