All California health insurance shoppers looking for California health insurance plans will note that the best and most affordable health plans from industry leaders like Blue Shield of California also come with great value adds like free health and wellness tools for members! Group health insurance California clients can likewise expect that their Blue Shield group health plans will come with equally great value adds in the form of an assortment of free and valuable benefits for your employees and their eligible dependents!
With the great value that starts with the always free quotes for group health insurance California plans along with our always free client services here at Vitality, let’s add these great value adds to the lineup when your company or organization selects Blue Shield of California as your source for group health coverage:
- The Healthy Lifestyle Rewards online program: With this free online program your employees get great and highly useful information about diet and nutrition, exercise, reducing stress, quitting smoking, along with great interactive tools that are focused on motivating your employees to start and maintain healthy lifestyle strategies for themselves and their family. Healthier, happier employees mean lower medical bills and that’s a money-saving win-win for both your business and your employee team!
- NurseHelp 24/7 and LifeReferrals 24/7: Help whenever your employee needs it! A nurse hotline for medical and health issues. LifeReferrals means a team of experienced professionals who can help your employees with an array of work/life issues. A great resource that is there for your team 24/7!
- Well informed consumers of health care services can make better choices when it comes to accessing these services. Blue Shield offers a suite of health condition management tools, hospital comparison tools, and pharmacy tools that work on behalf of your employees to help them become savvier consumers of health services and prescription medicines.
- Is yours a small business faced with many stressful daily challenges? Blue Shield helps you with efficiency and productivity with its ‘My Health Plan’ feature: Your employees can easily log on to blueshieldca.com and see the highlights and the details of their health plan! This self serve feature means you and/or your benefits administration team can rely on Blue Shield as your strategic partner in handling administrative tasks and let you concentrate on managing your business for success!
Blue Shield adds to the value with a lineup of wellness discount programs that includes member discounts with Weight Watchers; 24 Hour Fitness; and alternative care discount programs for those members who choose acupuncture, massage therapy and other alternative services. Â Check with your Vitality California health insurance team for more information on a complete listing on these value added discount programs from Blue Shield!
The value added features we’ve discussed above are focused on helping your employee team maintain peak health and wellness. These features have been shown to have significant value with employees, who appreciate the assistance these programs typically lend members in their ongoing efforts to lead active, healthy lifestyles. The best part of all these member benefits? It’s that they truly are ‘value added’! In addition to the value that comes with making the best and most affordable group health plans from Blue Shield of California available to your employees, they get the added value that comes with this important range of free health and wellness benefits.
That’s a winning combination for your employees, but it’s also a winner for you and your business: Employees who are dedicated to a path of making good decisions about their healthy lifestyle choices – and get consistent help in maintaining their ongoing efforts – can mean a healthier, more productive workforce for your business and can also mean an ability to control health care costs.
Ready to get started with a Blue Shield group health plan strategy that features the best and most affordable plans from within Blue Shield group health plan portfolios like PlanSelect and Suite Deal and also take advantage of Blue Shield’s strong provider network and great value added health and wellness features? Contact us at Vitality online or call us toll free at 800-607-1950!
Some of our readers – looking for good, solid California health insurance strategies – and perhaps a new California health insurance plan for themselves or a new California health insurance strategy for their family, may recall the old folk song about how all the bones in the body are connected to one another…
We bring it up because if you’re shopping for a new California medical insurance plan this is also a great time to be thinking about how much value an affordable California dental insurance plan would offer you and your family. Why is a good, solid dental health care strategy important? Studies have shown a link between the prevalence of bad oral health and various serious physical ailments.
Here at the Vitality Blog we talk a lot – a lot! – about the vital importance of using preventive services to maintain good health and to help combat the possibility for more serious medical issues later in life. These preventive measures include the use of preventive services that are featured in your health plan along with a devotion to healthy lifestyle choices like regular exercise and proper nutrition and of course: Not smoking! Into this mix – and considering that the data continues to show linkage between one’s dental health and physical wellbeing – we’d like to place a strong call to action when it comes to the inclusion of a dental health plan strategy in your overall health coverage planning.
It will come as no surprise to learn that folks, who have access to dental coverage, do use it and their oral health and wellbeing is the better for it. There are a variety of ways you can go about securing the dental coverage and services you and your family need to maintain your healthy smile. Let’s look at these different approaches:
- A separate standalone California dental insurance plan. We feature plans from an array of insurance companies operating here in the state and include plans from leading insurers such as California Blue Cross company Anthem and Blue Shield of California to name two. You can secure free quotes for California health insurance plans and dental plans here at the Vitality website and can also conveniently download applications for California health insurance here at our website as well.
- Secure dental services through a package deal! That’s right: Companies like Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield, and Aetna each feature health plans – like Anthem’s Tonik health plans – that offer a bundle which includes medical, dental, and vision benefits to the plan owner.
- Go with the innovation of the HSA-compatible health plan! A HSA-plan allows the plan owner to spend HSA funds on qualified medical, dental and vision expenses! Another reason why we say that the HSA strategy is great in that a HSA plan saves money as it provides the plan owner with typically lower monthly premiums, important tax advantages, and empowers the plan owner to make decisions about how their health care dollars are spent!
We hope you’re intrigued by the possibilities of the options we’ve discussed, and ready to take the next step in creating a winning strategy to protect the health and wellbeing of your family’s smile: As noted, our website is ready to serve quickly, easily, and conveniently if you prefer shopping online. As always, we are always ready to deliver a Total Quality client experience in the form of our always free, personalized, one-on-one client consultations we can arrange at a time and place that is convenient to your schedule! Contact us here at the Vitality website or call us toll free at 800-607-1950 and let’s get started building a dental health plan strategy that connects to your medical plan strategy to provide you and your family with comprehensive health coverage!
For California health insurance consumers Health Reform will mean at least one big change in how you use your new California health insurance plan moving forward. One important component of the Affordable Care Act was the recognition by lawmakers that preventive care plays a vital role in helping folks maintain good health and also an acknowledgement that preventive care today helps avoid the need for more expensive medical care in the future.
To that end; all new health plans sold on or after September 23rd, 2010, will feature preventive services as specified in the Affordable Care Act and which will be covered by your plan without charging you a copay, co-insurance or deductible – provided that these services are delivered by a network provider.
Everyone is different – we know folks who will line up to be first for an annual flu shot but who otherwise won’t participate in any sort of healthy lifestyle strategy involving regular exercise and proper nutrition. Still others drink protein shakes, exercise regularly, and only eat organic foods but will never get that annual flu shot. We know folks from both of these groups who have preventive services benefits in their health plans and never use them. Please try not to be one of those people!
Moving forward, preventive services will be an intricate part of your new California health insurance plan strategy. Using your preventive services will be as easy as making an appointment with your in-network provider and scheduling an appointment that will gain you access to one of the best benefits to come out of Health Reform legislation. The data is in: Preventive services do make an important difference in both your current and future quality of life. Preventive care is also key to creating important strategies early to deal with chronic health conditions.
If you’ve read enough of our website and accompanying Vitality Blog, you know we deal an awful lot with the dynamic of affordability as it relates to the free California health insurance plan quotes you can secure from our website’s quote engine. Each and every California consumer – be it a shopper for an individual California health insurance plan, a Medigap plan, or even the small group health insurance California business leaders seek out for their valued employee teams – wants their health coverage strategy to be the best and most affordable possible. We’re dedicated to helping you get there with both our always free personalized one-on-one client consultations and the important clear, concise information we place here at Vitality online for your review. That information includes our commentary on the need to think like an underwriter when applying for your new California health insurance plan. Examples of what makes an underwriter happy and the insurance company more prone to giving you the best premium rate includes height to weight ratios that are within underwriting guidelines and not smoking.
With the inclusion of a preventive services mandate via Health Reform legislation, it’s official: The prevailing trend today is towards moving the health insurance consumer into a more proactive role in the healthy lifestyle process. And here’s a “Did-you-know?’ worth noting: Leading insurance companies like Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California, and Aetna were already proactive in getting members to sign on to the concept of healthy lifestyle commitments: Each of these companies were already leaders in providing value added online tools and programs to help members lead more health conscious lives.
If you have the opportunity to utilize these great new and free preventive services as part of your new health plan, please do so. Not using these valuable services costs you in two ways: Financially: You’re leaving money on the table right here and now and you’re risking exposure to larger medical bills in the future for issues that might have been stopped in their tracks years previous or avoided entirely with preventive care services. Physically and emotionally: Preventive services are proven winners in helping you and your family avoid the potential for more serious health issues down the road. The use of preventive services as part of a balanced healthy living strategy should also leave you feeling better emotionally and less susceptible to the harmful effects of stress on the body and mind.
Have more questions about how preventive services are becoming an integral part of a California consumer’s health coverage strategy moving forward? We’re to help with our always free client services! Reach out to us via our Vitality website or call us toll-free at 800-607-1950, and we’ll arrange a careful, considerate client consultation at a time and place that is most convenient to your schedule!
