As a smart health care consumer, you want value for your premium dollar. And you want to take advantage of all the benefits your health plan has to offer. One of the value-added benefits Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida offers its State of Florida group members is the Healthy Addition program — a program offered at no additional cost.
Healthy Addition is designed to encourage good preventive care for expectant mothers. Nurses provide education on healthy habits, prenatal information and emotional support. The goal is healthy mothers and healthy babies.
After you get pregnant, your physician may refer you to
us or you can enroll yourself. A pre-screening nurse will then contact you and ask a series of health-related questions to assess your risk of delivering a pre-term baby.
If the Healthy Addition nurse determines that
you are not at risk, you will receive an additional call from the nurse — sometime between your 28th and 32nd week of pregnancy — just to make sure that everything is going smoothly.
Mothers who are determined to be at risk will be enrolled in our Healthy Addition high-risk monitoring program.
The program works, and our surveys tell us that women who have participated in it find the information and support very helpful.
Analysis shows that premature newborns whose mothers participated in Healthy Addition as high-risk individuals had a longer development in the womb than those whose mothers did not participate in the program.
If you are interested in more information about this program, please call one of our dedicated
customer service representatives at 1-800-825-2583.
