[As AmeriHealth Pennsylvania members are migrated to our new operating
platform, they will have access to a new suite of AmeriHealth Healthy Lifestyles
programs, called AmeriHealth Healthy LifestylesSM Solutions. Please
note that
many of the same popular programs that currently fall under the AmeriHealth
Healthy Lifestyles umbrella will still be offered.
These changes go into effect for AmeriHealth Pennsylvania members
upon
migration to the new platform.
Highlights of what is changing include the following:
Our fitness, weight management, and tobacco cessation programs will be
managed and administered by a third-party vendor.
Safety reimbursements (e.g., bike helmets, first aid, and CPR classes) and
parenting class reimbursements (e.g., childbirth preparation, lactation,
sibling)
will no longer be offered.
Reimbursements for maternity services (e.g., lactation consultation, rental/
purchase of breast pump) are now covered under women?s preventive care
through Health Care Reform. Therefore, they will no longer be offered under
the AmeriHealth Healthy Lifestyles programs.
Please keep in mind that, until all AmeriHealth Pennsylvania membership is
migrated to the new platform in mid-2015, you may have patients with the
same AmeriHealth Pennsylvania health plan who have access to different
AmeriHealth Healthy Lifestyles programs. In 2015, all AmeriHealth Pennsylvania
members will have access to the new AmeriHealth Healthy Lifestyles
Solutions.
Members will be notified of these changes prior to their migration to the
new platform. Members can contact Customer
Service at the number on the back of their ID card to learn more about the
programs that are available to them.
For more information about our Upcoming System and
Process Changes, visit our
dedicated site.
For OB/GYN offices:
If your office prepares and
distributes packets/kits for
expectant members, we ask
that you please discontinue
the promotion of the parenting
class and maternity services
reimbursements offered through
our current AmeriHealth Healthy
Lifestyles program .
We will continue to provide
educational material through
our Baby FootSteps® program
for expectant members as well
as exclusive discounts on the
Saving Baby?s Cord Blood®
storage program through
CorCell® and the free Quit&Fit
®
tobacco cessation program.
Quit&Fit is a federally
registered
trademark of American Specialty
Health Incorporated.