Asthma

Care Choices would like to help you and your primary care physician best manage your asthma. With your doctor’s help and the Care Choices Asthma program, you can control your asthma and be free of symptoms most of the time.

Toll-free number staffed by Care Choices nurses (877) 890-2045

Nurse Case Management (can help you coordinate your asthma care)

Asthma Health Education Classes

Asthma Action Plan

Take the "How’s Your Health?" Health Risk Assessment Survey

Respiratory Prescription Drug Coverage

• Learn what things start or prompt your asthma symptoms, then avoid or control them.
• Respond quickly to warning signs of an asthma attack.
• Work with your health care provider to develop an asthma action plan (see the example in the Healthwise® health library). Your asthma action plan is a treatment plan, which tells you what medicines to take and when to take them.
• See your doctor at least once a year, and update your asthma action plan yearly.
• If you should have severe asthma symptoms requiring emergency room treatment, schedule a follow-up appointment with your doctor within seven to ten days to discuss what may have caused that asthma attack. Your asthma treatment may need to be adjusted.

To obtain more information, and receive a confidential call from a Disease Management Coordinator, call the toll-free Care Choices Disease Management line at (877) 890-2045.