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After Stroke

Personalized support to help you understand your care, coordinate next steps, and navigate recovery with more confidence.
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Who This Is For

Someone in Your Corner Through Recovery

Recovery after stroke can mean managing specialists, medications, referrals, insurance questions, follow-up appointments, and a long list of next steps — often while you or your family are still adjusting to life after the hospital.

Through our partnership with Baba, eligible stroke survivors and caregivers can connect with an experienced care advocate who helps make that process easier to navigate. Baba’s team includes nurses, social workers, and community health workers who can help you understand your options, coordinate care, and keep important next steps from falling through the cracks.

If you have Medicare or a Medicare Advantage plan, this support may be available to you at little or no cost.

How Baba Can Help

Support With the Parts of Recovery That Get Complicated

The Stroke Foundation partners with Baba to connect eligible individuals with care navigation services. Baba provides the care navigation service directly. Eligibility and coverage vary by insurance plan.
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Eligibility
Stroke survivors and their caregivers can apply for a six‑month therapy voucher through our form.
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Intake appointment
Schedule a virtual intake appointment with Baba's medical team so they can understand everything on your plate and how we can help.
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Advocate matching
Get a personalized care plan and matched with an advocate who gets to work on your behalf. You can call or text your advocate 24/7.
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Focus on recovery
Let your advocate chase the referrals and sit on hold, so you don't have to.
Your Baba advocate can help with the practical work that often happens between appointments: understanding discharge instructions, coordinating providers, tracking referrals, navigating insurance, finding community resources, and figuring out what questions to ask next.

They can also help you explore financial assistance programs when medical bills become a barrier to care. That may include identifying hospital financial assistance programs, helping gather documentation, and supporting you through the application process.

The goal is simple: you should not have to navigate every part of recovery alone.

FAQ

Questions about care navigation?

Find answers about who’s eligible, what Baba can help with, how coverage works, and what to expect from your care advocate.
What is an advocate?

An experienced healthcare professional who helps you understand your care plan, coordinate with clinicians and insurers, and handle practical care tasks while keeping your priorities central.

Why might I need an advocate?

An advocate can help manage appointments, insurance, bills, prescriptions, follow-ups, calls, paperwork, and next steps when healthcare becomes difficult to coordinate on your own.

Will I work with a person or software?

You work with a person. Baba uses software and AI for administrative support, but your advocate manages the relationship, coordination decisions, and follow-through.

Who are Baba advocates?

Baba advocates include experienced nurses, social workers, benefits specialists, and care coordinators who work across clinical offices, insurance plans, pharmacies, equipment suppliers, and community services.

How do I get started?

You begin with a virtual intake. Baba checks eligibility and coverage, then matches eligible clients with an advocate who learns about their needs, preferences, and current care plan.

What can’t an advocate do?

Advocates do not diagnose, prescribe, change clinical instructions, give legal advice, or provide hands-on care. Clinical questions are directed back to the appropriate licensed clinician.

Does insurance cover Baba, and will I pay anything?

Coverage is checked individually. Medicare and Medicare Advantage cover advocacy for many eligible clients, and most eligible clients have no out-of-pocket cost.

How is eligibility checked?

Baba reviews the client’s insurance plan, location, and service requirements. Coverage varies by plan and state, and expected costs are explained before enrollment.

Can an advocate help with a denial or prior authorization?

Yes. An advocate can review notices, gather clinical documentation, explain appeal or authorization steps, contact the insurer, and track the request. The insurance plan makes the final coverage decision.

Can an advocate help with bills or prescription costs?

Yes. An advocate can review bills for errors, contact insurers or billing offices, look for lower-cost medication options, and identify assistance programs. Medication changes remain between the client and prescribing clinician.

Can an advocate help with medical equipment coverage?

Yes. An advocate can coordinate orders, confirm supplier requirements, gather documentation, track authorization, and help with appeals if a claim is denied.

What can my advocate do for me?

An advocate can help schedule appointments, prepare questions, join visits by phone, arrange medical equipment, review bills, appeal insurance decisions, apply for benefits, and coordinate in-home or community support.

Can an advocate help with a specific condition or recovery?

Yes. An advocate can organize records, coordinate specialists and therapy, track prescriptions and equipment, arrange transportation, and prepare follow-up questions related to a condition or recovery plan.

Will my advocate work with family or caregivers?

Yes, with the client’s permission. The client decides who can join calls, receive reminders or updates, and help with next steps, and can change that permission later.

Can I help set this up for a parent or loved one?

Yes. A family member can help someone get started and join the first conversation, but the person receiving support must agree to the service and decide what information Baba may share.

Do I need power of attorney to help a family member?

Not if the family member can make their own decisions and give permission directly. If someone already acts under a power of attorney, Baba will confirm which documents are needed.

How will my advocate communicate with me?

Communication can happen by phone, text, email, or through Baba’s website, based on the client’s preferences and the work being done.

How is my health information protected?

Baba protects personal and health information and shares it only with authorized people or as needed to provide the service. Clients choose who may be contacted and what can be shared.

Can support continue after discharge?

Yes, when the person remains eligible and wants to continue. Baba can keep helping with unresolved insurance, appointment, equipment, benefit, and family-coordination needs after a facility or home-health episode ends.