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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): 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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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Medicare Part B Prescription Drugs

    No cost Original Medicare Part B prescription drug coverage through the health plan. Part B drugs are those not usually self-administered.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT)

    Annual counseling in disease management through MNT for those with diabetes, renal disease, or kidney transplant.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Inpatient Stay: Covered Services Received in a Hospital or SNF during a Non-Covered Inpatient Stay

    If inpatient benefits are exhausted or the inpatient stay is not reasonable and necessary, the stay will not be covered - but certain services may.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Inpatient Services in a Psychiatric Hospital

    Inpatient psychiatric care can be provided in a psychiatric hospital or within a general hospital, under voluntary or involuntary admission.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Inpatient Hospital Care

    Inpatient care is defined as admission into the hospital under inpatient status.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Hospice Care

    Treatment and support at home for those with advanced illness approaching end of life - when life expectancy is months, not years.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Home Infusion Therapy

    Delivery and administration of intravenous or subcutaneous medications in the home as a safe and effective alternative to inpatient care.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Plus (HMO): Home Health Agency Care

    Intermittent skilled nursing, therapy, social work, and home health aide services provided in the home to support recovery or address functional decline.

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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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