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Our guides provide you with the skills, checklists and tips for caring for your loved one. Our content is authored by highly qualified registered nurses with a combined total of 60 years of expertise in various healthcare settings such as acute, community and home care.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Chiropractic Services (Medicare-covered)

    Chiropractors specialize in hands-on manipulation of the spine to correct subluxation (where one or more vertebrae become misaligned).

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Cardiac Rehabilitation Services (Cardiac Rehab)

    Cardiac rehab reduces the chance of death in the 5 years after a heart attack or bypass by about 35%. It also improves heart failure status and outcomes.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Ambulance Services

    Ambulance services can be either emergency medical (EMT) or non-emergency medical transport (non-EMT or NEMT).

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Visit (therapy for cardiovascular disease)

    CVD is the #1 cause of death at a rate of 1 person every 34 seconds. Daily habits and actions profoundly determine whether CVD will develop.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Urgently Needed Services (Urgent Care)

    This is not emergency care. This is care provided at an urgent care center or by an out-of-network provider because an in-network provider is unavailable.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Screening for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) and Counseling to Prevent STIs

    Older adults remain sexually active. STIs have increased over 110% in people aged 55 and older. Protect people's parts! Get checked.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Screening for Lung Cancer with Low-Dose Computed Tomography (LDCT)

    Screening for qualified members. The effects of smoking or exposure to environmental pollutants or workplace toxins may show up many years later.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Screening and Counseling to Reduce Alcohol Misuse

    For those who misuse alcohol but are not alcohol-dependent. Misuse is too much, too often. Dependence is the inability to quit.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Pulmonary Rehabilitation Services (Pulmonary Rehab)

    Pulmonary rehab services help people with lung disease live and breathe better, as well as improve chest strength and physical endurance.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Prostate Cancer Screening Exams (PSA Test)

    Annual blood test and digital exam for abnormalities of the prostate in all men 50 and older.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Over-the-Counter (OTC) Card with $50 Every Quarter

    A preloaded spending card for qualified OTC items from network retailers. $50 loaded every quarter (3 months). Benefits do not roll over to the following quarter.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Obesity Screening and Therapy to Promote Sustained Weight Loss

    Intensive counseling for weight loss. Obesity is a disease that increases health risks, worsens existing conditions, and requires treatment.

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Helpful is an app to make caregiving easier. We integrate your loved one’s insurance benefits, medical records and caregiving guides into an immediate, accessible and user-friendly experience. Helpful supports your care needs by eliminating administrative tasks and providing technology to support your caregiving experience.

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