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Healthcare Advisor
At Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont, we know that the first step in making fact-based personal healthcare decisions is to find reliable sources of unbiased, expert information. We want to help you with this search by offering our members state-of-the-art, advertising-free information that you can use to guide you toward the best decisions for your personal situation.
Access to Healthcare Advisor is available only from within our private, secure sites. Click on the links below to login and start using Healthcare Advisor from the Decision support Tools menu item.
Some of the Healthcare Advisor resources that are available include:
| | | Hospital comparison information | | Get the information you need to make informed decisions on hospital choices, and evaluate healthcare facilities based on factors that you choose as being most important to you. You can view a side-by-side comparison of hospitals on the basis of such criteria as clinical outcomes, patient safety and other categories.
| | Pharmacy information | | Look up information on more than 11,000 prescription drugs, including generic equivalents, research side effect and interaction information, drug effectiveness and costs. Cost estimates are provided (actual financial responsibility will vary by health benefit plan.)
| | Treatment costs | | When you have the financial responsibility to pay for some or all of your medical services, you need to have access to information about healthcare costs. The treatment cost tool makes cost estimates available for the most common services and conditions affecting families today, including physician and facility charges for services and treatment. Actual costs may vary from the estimates due to network contractual arrangements.
| | Medical encyclopedia | | Research articles from a large illustrated medical encyclopedia.
| | Questions to ask your doctor | | Learn how to effectively discuss specific situations with your healthcare provider.
| | Questions to ask your insurance company | | Get a list of questions to discuss with a benefits provider.
| | Community discussions | | Ask the advice of other people and provide input about any health topic.
| | Links and resources | | Links to other resources, including useful web sites, organized by health topic. | | |
There’s no wrong way to use Healthcare Advisor! Just log in to the BCBSVT Member Site, go to the Decision Support Tools section and begin gathering the information that you need to make decisions that are right for you.
Note: If you are not already a registered user of the private BCBSVT member site, you will have to perform a one-time new user registration.
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