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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 Classic (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 Classic (HMO): Prosthetic Devices and Related Supplies

    Prosthetics replace or restore lost functionality and include everything from orthotic shoes to implants to artificial limbs.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Classic (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 Classic (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 Classic (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 Classic (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 Classic (HMO): Services to Treat Kidney Disease

    Dialysis is used in end-stage renal (kidney) disease to replace kidney function and cleanse the body of toxins.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Classic (HMO): Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) Care

    SNF is post-acute care, typically following a hospitalization, provided most often in a facility, that involves licensed nursing care and oversight.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Classic (HMO): Smoking and Tobacco Use Cessation (Counseling to stop)

    Tobacco use causes cancers throughout the body, not just in the lungs of smokers. Tobacco users spend $70 per week ($280/month) on tobacco products.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Classic (HMO): Supervised Exercise Therapy (SET)

    Supervised exercise therapy (SET) is used to alleviate painful and disruptive symptoms associated with peripheral artery disease.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Classic (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 a network provider is unavailable.

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  • AZ Blue Best Life Classic (HMO): Over-the-Counter (OTC) Card with $75 Every Quarter

    A preloaded spending card for qualified OTC items from network retailers. $75 loaded every quarter (3 months). Benefits do not roll over to the following quarter.

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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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