PCM for Neurology
Neurologists manage numerous conditions that may meet the criteria for Principal Care Management (PCM) services. Examples are provided below:
- Alcoholic polyneuropathy
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Anterior cord syndrome
- Autonomic dysreflexia
- Brown-Sequard syndrome
- Carotid sinus syncope
- Central demyelination of corpus callosum
- Central pontine myelinolysis
- Cerebrovascular disorders
- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuritis
- Communicating hydrocephalus
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Concentric sclerosis [Balo] of central nervous system
- Congenital and developmental myasthenia
- Corticobasal degeneration
- Degeneration of nervous system due to alcohol
- Degenerative disease of basal ganglia
- Dementia with Lewy bodies
- Demyelinating disease of central nervous system, unspecified
- Diffuse sclerosis of central nervous system
- Drug induced secondary parkinsonism
- Drug-induced polyneuropathy
- Epilepsy
- Familial motor neuron disease
- Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy
- Huntington’s disease
- Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Idiopathic progressive neuropathy
- Inflammatory polyneuropathy
- Lambert-Eaton syndrome
- Late-onset cerebellar ataxia
- Migraine (certain types and depending on complexity)
- Mitochondrial myopathy
- Motor neuron disease
- Multifocal motor neuropathy
- Multiple sclerosis
- Multi-system degeneration of the autonomic nervous system
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myasthenia gravis
- Myelopathy
- Myopathic disorders
- Myopathy, unspecified
- Narcolepsy
- Neuromyelitis optica [Devic]
- Obstructive hydrocephalus
- Paralytic syndrome, unspecified
- Paraneoplastic neuromyopathy and neuropathy
- Parkinson’s disease
- Pick’s disease and other frontotemporal dementias
- Polyneuropathy due to other toxic agents
- Posterior cord syndrome
- Primary lateral sclerosis
- Progressive bulbar palsy
- Quadriplegia
- Radiation-induced polyneuropathy
- Sequelae of toxic polyneuropathy
- Spinal muscular atrophies
- Striatonigral degeneration
- Subacute combined degeneration of spinal cord in diseases classified elsewhere
- Subacute necrotizing myelitis of central nervous system
- Syringomyelia and syringobulbia
- Systemic atrophy
- Vascular parkinsonism
- Vertebro-basilar artery syndrome
One of the first steps we recommend is identifying eligible patients in your practice who would benefit for PCM services. Please contact us for detailed guidance on determining whether PCM services is a good fit for your practice and your patients. We can be reached at: info@apollohit.com