Primary Care

Your Primary Care Provider leads your health care team, which may include doctors, nurses, specialists, therapists and other health caregivers.

Primary care includes –

• Helping you live a healthy lifestyle
• Helping prevent illness
• Helping maintain your health
• Counseling
• Coordination of care
• Patient education
• Finding and treating new or long-term illnesses in a range of health care settings

You are the most important person in your health care. Make sure your doctor understands you and that you understand what your doctor is saying.

See Member Rights & Responsibilities for more information.

Primary Care Providers may be trained in –

• Family Practice
• Family Practice with Obstetrics
• General Practice
• Geriatric Physician
• Internal Medicine Physician
• Pediatrics

Other Primary Care Providers

There are other health caregivers such as nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) who also provide some primary care. This care includes annual exams, urgent care and follow-up of ongoing health care.

Only a Medical Doctor (MD), Doctor of Osteopathic (DO) and certain Nurse Practitioners (NP) can be listed as a Primary Care Provider on your ID card. These providers are listed as Primary Care Providers in Find A Doctor.

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