Taking charge of care and costs.
What you’ll find as you navigate our resources and content in our series about health literacy includes:
- What is Health Literacy? Why does it Matter?
- Navigating Health Insurance Benefits
- Understanding Medical Bills
- Choosing the Benefits that Meet Your Needs
- Health Information and Resources
- How to Talk to Your Doctor and Advocate for Your Health
- Preventive Health – Small Steps for Long-Term Wellness
What is Health Literacy? Why does it Matter?
- Definition: the ability of individuals to access and use health information to make appropriate health decisions and maintain basic health.
- Newsletter #1: The first edition of our campaign newsletter!
- Quick Overview: This edition looks at key terms, preventive care benefits, prescription drugs, navigating the MyCigna portal, and more.
- Newsletter #2: Check out the second edition of our campaign.
- MyCigna Tutorial: Here’s a myCigna Demo Recording (16:56)
Understanding Medical Bills
- Quick Overview: Transparency tools, EOBs demystified, tips for reading your bills, and more.
- Newsletter #3: Here’s our third edition to increase your health literacy.
Choosing the Benefits that Meet Your Needs
- Quick Overview: Open enrollment considerations, considerations with FSAs & HSAs, pre-open enrollment ideas to be ready when it’s time to choose your benefits.
- Newsletter #4: The fourth edition of our campaign.
Health Information and Resources
- Quick Overview: Finding and evaluating reliable health information, considerations related to prescription insurance coverage compared to discount programs, and more.
- Newsletter #5: Coming later this year.
How to Talk to Your Doctor and Advocate for Your Health
- Quick Overview: Preparing for appointments, tips for during your visits, prescription and treatment option information.
- Newsletter #6: Coming later this year.
Preventive Health – Small Steps for Long-Term Wellness
- Quick Overview: Importance of getting your preventive care, well-being resources, and more.
- Newsletter #7: Coming later this year.
The content in the Health Literacy Campaign is intended to be used as a reference tool for health literacy education. It is imperative to connect with your own doctor and insurance company as well as utilize plan documents related to your specific circumstances.