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Updates to our Healthy LifestylesSM programs

November 1, 2013

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As they are migrated to our new operating platform, IBC members will have access to a new suite of Healthy Lifestyles programs, called Healthy LifestylesSM Solutions. Please note that many of the same popular programs that currently fall under the Health Lifestyles umbrella will still be offered.

These changes go into effect for 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 through women's preventive care through Health Care Reform. Therefore, they will no longer be offered under the Healthy Lifestyles programs.

Please keep in mind that, until all membership is migrated to the new platform in mid-2015, you may have patients with the same IBC health plan who have access to different Healthy Lifestyles programs. In 2015, all members will have access to the new Health 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.

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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 Healthy Lifestyles programs.

We will continue to provide educational materials through our Baby BluePrints® program for expectant members, exclusive discounts on the Saving Baby?s Cord Blood® storage program through CorCell®, an independent company, and the free Quit&Fit® tobacco cessation program.

Quit&Fit is a federally registered trademark of American Specialty Health Incorporated, an independent company.

American Specialty Health Incorporated is an independent company that administers its Quit&Fit smoking cessation program for IBC members.

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