Insurance Provider WellPoint Visits WebMD

Two companies enter a three year agreement in which WebMD will greatly expand online offerings found on Wellpoint's member Website.

If you are WellPoint health benefits subscriber you’ll be interested in this story. Your health insurance provider has teamed with leading online health information company WebMD to begin providing more information and personalization options to the 28.5 million subscribers that WellPoint services.

The two companies, according to a press release, have entered into a three year agreement in which WebMD will have their online health platform and Web services integrated into WellPoint’s personalized member Website. Key components of the new offering will include expanded health content, condition databases, personal health records and online health risk assessments. The integration is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of this year.

WellPoint is a Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee across many states, including California, Colorado, Georgia, Maine and Nevada.

“The partnership with WebMD to offer our members customized, high-quality health information reflects our commitment to translate evidence-based science into better care for the people we serve,” said Sam Nussbaum, M.D., executive vice president and chief medical officer of WellPoint, Inc. “Through these enhanced health tools and high-standard content, our members will have access to the information they need to make better, more informed decisions about their health and health care.”