Healthy Living Programs

At AvMed, we’re constantly exploring ways to help your clients maintain good health. To that end, we offer a variety of wellness strategies and programs that can enhance both their well-being and quality of life, putting them on the road to better health and keeping them there.

Our popular Weight Watchers discounts and smoking cessation programs, for example, support members who want to make healthy lifestyle changes. In addition, members can receive up to 30 percent off vitamin and nutritional supplements, as well as discounts on activities like yoga and tai chi. For more information on programs available to your clients, call AvMed Member Services at (800) 882-8633.

Fitness Center Membership
AvMed’s health and wellness network includes more than 28,000 practitioners nationally offering 30 to 50 percent off fitness center memberships, including all locations of national powerhouses like Gold’s Gyms and Curves for Women, plus many other locally owned fitness centers. Log onto avmed.wholehealthmd.com for information on fitness centers by area.

Nutritional Counseling
At AvMed, we know that good health and smart food choices go hand in hand, so our health and wellness programs also include nutrition counseling from registered dieticians and nutritionists. Meanwhile, our Healing Kitchen sets a virtual table of tips and recipes that can actually help members use food to manage ailments.

Relaxation Techniques
Stress has a direct link to high blood pressure, gastrointestinal complaints, heart trouble and other ailments. Your clients can successfully manage stress, though; our relaxation and meditation training will show you how.

SmokEnders
An easy-to-follow method for kicking the smoking habit, which includes a discount rate for Smokenders and reimbursement if you quit smoking.

Tai Chi
Tell your clients about one simple set of movements they can perform to reduce stress and ease the symptoms of arthritis, diabetes and other maladies. It’s called tai chi, and it’s one of AvMed’s value-added health and wellness services.

WeightWatchers
Reimbursement for all fees paid to WeightWatchers for a period up to one year by AvMed members who reach and maintain their goal weight as defined in the WeightWatchers program.

Yoga
It’s been around for thousands of years, but yoga has been rediscovered by people who want to tone their bodies while soothing their souls. Tell your clients to pull up a mat and watch their flexibility increase while their stress level decreases. It’s just one of many AvMed health and wellness programs.