Weight Management Benefits

Wellvolution

Wellvolution is Blue Shield’s digital healthcare platform that provides digital clinical programs based on lifestyle medicine approaches to help people lose weight and lower their risk for diseases like obesity and diabetes.  Wellvolution includes some in person programs for those at risk for diabetes.  All programs are free to the member. Wellvolution Programs Flyer

Over-the-Phone

Behavioral counseling related to Healthy Diet, Physical Activity and Obesity is available if you have a chronic condition such as Diabetes, Coronary artery disease (CAD), Heart failure, Asthma, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Please talk to your physician for more information. A nurse who will work closely with you one-on-one to answer your questions. Other features include in-person (where available) or online self-management workshops, self-management tools, interactive online tools and educational materials. The Wellvoltuion platform is now available in Spanish, members can go to www.wellvolution.com and choose the language preference of either English or Espanol. 

Fitness Your Way

Convenient. Affordable. Flexible. Get basic, multi-access to a network of thousands of gyms nationwide – no long-term commitments. Fitness Your Way is available to members and their dependents over age 18 who have healthcare coverage with a participating Blue Shield of California plan.

RealAge Test: RealAge Test provides you with a custom report of your behavioral and medical health risks. After taking the online survey, you’ll receive a personal action plan.

Health Coaching program: Enjoy one-on-one wellness support by telephone with a health coach. You can choose from a number of topics like nutrition, stress management, exercise, tobacco cessation, weight loss, and more.

Eat Right Now: Eat Right Now by Sharecare is an evidence-based app designed to help members make healthy choices with mindfulness interventions. Through practicing awareness of sensations that trigger emotional eating and cravings, making better food choices, and knowing how to distinguish real hunger and emotional hunger, individuals are more successful in changing their relationship with food, leading to sustainable weight-loss, and practicing healthy habits. Eat Right Now has three program tracks. When members complete a brief assessment, they will be placed in one of three program tracks that will best support their health. All tracks include daily guided lessons, mindfulness exercises, craving tools , community support, and live weekly calls with behavior change experts.

Eat Right Now Program Tracks:

1. Mindful Eating – uses techniques to establish mindful eating habits and reshape relationship with food.
2. Weight Loss* – expands on mindful eating and supplies additional tools, personal coach, and smart scale for effective, sustainable weight loss.
3. Diabetes Prevention Program* – CDC-recognized program. Builds on the Weight Loss program with specific guidance on how to prevent Type 2 Diabetes. The goal of the DPP is:

• Achieve a minimum of 5% sustainable weight loss (which studies have shown to reduce risk of diabetes)
• Regularly complete 150 minutes of weekly activity
• Achieve a .2% reduction in HbA1c. 

*Pending regulatory review

For all Health Net CanopyCare HMO members Call the Customer Contact Center at 1-833-448-2042 - Monday - Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. PST. 

Medical Weight Management Program

This program may be the answer if you have at least 40 pounds to lose. It can help you make positive, lasting changes to improve your health, increase your energy, and help you live life to the fullest. The 82-week program features low-calorie meal replacements, medical monitoring by a team of Kaiser Permanente medical professionals, and weekly behavior change strategy sessions.

Join us for a free, one-hour information session to find out more about this program. Open to the community. Visit www.kphealthyweight.com/get-started/orientations/ for orientation dates and times.

Services and products described here are provided on a fee-for-service basis and are separate from and not covered under members’ health plan benefits, and members are financially responsible to pay for them. For information go to kp.org and search on the term “medical weight management”. This program is only available at specific Kaiser Permanente locations. Click the button below to find participating locations.