Wellness Tools

Blue Care Connection^®

To help you get started and keep going on your journey to wellness, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) gives you the resources you need to succeed. Through the Blue Care Connection program, you'll find convenient online tools and personalized telephone services that support, inform and motivate you.

Whether you are trying to improve your health or reach the next level of wellness, Blue Care Connection can help you and covered family members reach your goals — whatever your health status is. Use these Blue Care Connection resources to customize your own wellness action plan, make smarter health care choices and help manage your health care.

Take charge of your health by participating in the programs.

• Blue Care Connection Overview 
• Blue Points^SM 
• Personal Health Manager 
• 24/7 Nurseline 
• Special Beginnings^® Maternity Program 
• Tobacco Cessation and Weight Management Programs 
• Condition Management 

Blue Extras^SM Discount Program

Through the Blue Extras discount program, all BCBSTX members are eligible to save money on value-added health care products and services that help support healthy lifestyles. These discounts are for health care products and services not usually covered by your health benefits plan and include:

• Vision Discount Program — discounts on eye exams, eyewear and laser vision correction
• Hearing Discount Program — discounts on hearing aids and related tests
• Weight Management Discount Programs — discounts at participating Jenny Craig and Life Time Fitness locations
• Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) Discount Programs — discounts on a variety of therapies that may help to increase wellness, prevent illness and address existing symptoms and conditions

There are no claims to file, no referrals and no pre-authorizations. And there is no additional fee to participate — it's just one more benefit of being a BCBSTX member!