Consumer Tools
Consumer Tools help employees and their family members become smarter, more effective, more accountable consumers of health care. They need facts. They need answers. They need sources they can trust. We provide it all, and right at their fingertips.
Key Benefits
Actionable Information
- User friendly
- Enables employer to implement and communicate to their health plan membership special provider relationships, custom and tiered network arrangements
- Enrollment tools to help employees choose a health plan – using their own claims data
- Network search function updated daily
- Advanced consumer health information and HRA available through our Group Purchase arrangements
Features
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Web-based, multi-lingual (English and Spanish) applications. These tools can be easily integrated into an employer’s internet and/or intranet.
Health Plan Evaluator
Employees can use ACS Bowers’ website to determine which health plan option best suits each of their needs based on their own unique claims data, their own premium contributions and the employer’s actual plan designs.
Provider Search Engine and Directories
Employees and their family members have the ability to search for contracted providers and produce and print a full directory (printable directory in English only). This tool fully supports community-based coalitions and/or special networks set up by and employer.
Health Library
An electronic library of primary source information sorted by health condition or disease.
Online Advocacy Services
Employees and their family members can email our health care professionals for confidential and professional answers to their questions.
HRA Integration
Ability to integrate third party Health Risk Appraisal tools.