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It’s likely you put some time into making decisions about big purchases for your home. Why shouldn’t you do the same with your health care?
Wellmark works with hospitals and doctors on a variety of quality and patient safety initiatives. These initiatives strive to improve quality and increase the availability of health care information while reducing health care costs.
Wellmark offers tools and resources to assist you in making health care quality and cost decisions:
Quality Tools
There are a variety of tools you can use when deciding where to receive care. Be sure to evaluate your health care choices and think about quality.
Patient Review of Providers, located within the Find a Doctor or Hospital tool
Post reviews of providers based on your experience or see how other members have rated
a provider.
Top Centers for Specialty Care
Find out which medical facilities have been named Blue Distinction Centers for
Specialty Care®.
Programs to Improve Care Quality
Learn about the Blue Physician Recognition Program and Collaboration on Quality®, a joint effort between Wellmark and providers to improve health care quality.
Health Plan Ratings
How good are Wellmark plans? Find out how health plan quality is measured and see results for Wellmark’s health plans.
Cost Tool
Are you preparing for an upcoming procedure and want to understand your out-of-pocket costs? Health care costs can be difficult to find. Get a great start with our online tool that helps you research estimated medical costs.
Estimate Costs
Find a range of total medical cost estimates for more than 100 of the most common medical treatments and conditions. Log in to myWellmark and select Estimate Costs under the Cost and Quality Tools widget. Note: Cost estimates provided are based on pricing for Alliance SelectSM and Blue Select® plans.
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