Pregnant? Check out United Healthcare's Healthy Pregnancy Program!

Pregnancy can be one of the most exciting time of a woman’s – and couple’s – life. At the same time, it can also be a time full of questions, concerns and confusion regarding medical care, the options available, and what steps should be taken to ensure a healthy baby and mother.

In order to make this process easier, United Healthcare has created a site healthy-pregnancy.com that can be accessed by anyone as well as a program for expectant mothers on their plan.

At healthy-pregnancy.com, you can utilize tools such as a due date calculator, week by week baby growth explanations, fitness and nutritional tips, descriptions of the types of delivery available to women, and resources such as an appointment tracker and links to sites that can help you know more about the care your planned hospital offers. Make sure to check out the birth plan checklist (which is printable) so that you can easily communicate your birth plan to your entire labor and delivery team.

The program that United Healthcare has created also provides additional resources to their members. By enrolling for the Healthy Pregnancy Program during the first 33 weeks of their pregnancy, expectant mothers are given access to 24-hour toll-free access to experienced pregnancy and childbirth nurses, educational materials and resources, as well as one-on-one support. Currently, over 41,500 high-risk pregnancies has been identified and supported by the nurses of this program, helping expectant mothers to be more informed throughout their pregnancy.

Keeping Track of Group Plan Information

Sometimes the amount of information that a plan administrator is responsible to keep track of is overwhelming. Just like your personal benefits information, there can be multiple carriers, groups numbers, policy details, and contact information, all of which are essential to organize so that your group's plans can operate properly.

In order to help simplify this process for you, we have created a worksheet where you can input all pertinent information including:

Keeping Track of Important Benefits Information

Not long after you sign up for your benefits plan, it seems like you are bombarded with information and cards. You might have different carriers for your medical, vision, dental, and life, each with their own cards, ID numbers, and contact information. If you are anything like me, you will most likely misplace one or all of these at least once throughout the year (and usually when you need it the most).

After years of scrambling to find all of my important plan information when I needed it, I decided to input it all into a document and save it to my computer. This way, even when I could not find my card, I would have all of the pertinent information for my benefits in one place.

Think this tool might be helpful for you too? Try a set up like this: