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Health coverage you can count on from Blue Shield and AAA

Explore Medicare plans in your area

Choose a Medicare plan that offers more. Blue Shield and AAA have teamed up to offer health coverage with a benefit designed to help promote continued independence and safer mobility.¹

Call to learn more!  (800) 260-9607

Enrolled members,¹ including existing AAA Members, receive the following benefits:

Driver with Classic AAA membership

One-Year New or Renewal Classic AAA Membership²

With 24/7 roadside assistance, included with your plan, annually upon enrollment.

Senior couple using AAA Roadwise Driver

AAA Roadside Driver

A course designed to help refine your driving skills to help you become a safer driver.

Driver using AAA Educational Driving Resources

Access to Educational Driving Resources

Online tools for drivers, such as AAA RoadwiseRx3 – designed to help you learn more about your medications and how they may affect your driving.

Choose from our Medicare plans that include our Independence and Safe Mobility with AAA benefit*

Choose from our Medicare plans that include our Independence and Safe Mobility with AAA benefit*

  • Blue Shield Plan G Inspire (Medicare Supplement)
    In addition to providing coverage for Medicare Part A deductibles, Part A and Part B copayments and coinsurance, Plan G Inspire4 offers all the benefits of our Plan G Extra, plus the Independence and Safe Mobility with AAA benefit with more than $2,000 in extra benefits,5 including:
    • Vision and hearing aid benefits6
    • Quarterly allowance for over-the-counter (OTC) items7
    • Access to doctors on-call 24/7
    • Access to fitness and wellness programs, PLUS
    • One-year new or renewal Classic AAA Membership,2 included with your plan, annually upon enrollment*
      • AAA Roadwise Driver
      • Access to Educational Driving Resources

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  • Blue Shield Inspire (HMO)
    Our Blue Shield Inspire (HMO) plans offer you the all-in-one coverage that includes medical and Part D prescription drug coverage, and extra benefits such as:
    • Annual physical exam
    • Acupuncture and chiropractic services8,9
    • Doctors on-call 24/7 by phone or video
    • Fitness and wellness programs
    • Frames and eyeglass lenses or contact lenses allowance, PLUS 
    • One-year new or renewal Classic AAA Membership,2 included with your plan annually upon enrollment*
      • AAA Roadwise Driver
      • Access to Educational Driving Resources

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  • Blue Shield Inspire (HMO D-SNP)
    Have Medicare and Medi-Cal? Our Blue Shield Inspire (HMO D-SNP) includes the comprehensive coverage and benefits of our Blue Shield Inspire HMO plan and a personal Care Navigator to help coordinate your benefits such as:
    • Hearing aids benefit
    • Transportation to your doctor10
    • Frames and eyeglass lenses or contact lenses allowance
    • Home meal delivery12
    • Over-the-counter items allowance,7 PLUS
    • One-year new or renewal Classic AAA Membership,2 included with your plan, annually upon enrollment*
      • AAA Roadwise Driver
      • Access to Educational Driving Resources

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  • Blue Shield Select (PPO)

    Our Blue Shield Select (PPO)14 plan offers you the all-in-one coverage that includes medical and Part D prescription drug coverage, the freedom to see any doctor, and extra benefits such as:

    • Annual physical exam
    • Acupuncture and chiropractic services8
    • Over-the-counter items allowance7
    • Doctors on-call 24/7 by phone or video
    • Frames and eyeglass lenses or contact lenses allowance, PLUS 
    • One-year new or renewal Classic AAA Membership,2 included with your plan, annually upon enrollment*
      • AAA Roadwise Driver
      • Access to Educational Driving Resources

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Compare Blue Shield’s Medicare plan options with our Independence and Safe Mobility with AAA benefit

Plan G Inspire2

Inspire (HMO)

Inspire (HMO D-SNP)

Inspire (HMO PPO)

Independence and Safe Mobility with AAA1

Vision benefits6

Hearing aid benefits

Quarterly allowance for over-the-counter (OTC) items7

Annual physical exam

Acupuncture and chiropractic services8,9

Access to doctors on-call 24/7 by phone or video 

Fitness and wellness programs

Frames and eyeglass lenses or contact lenses allowance

Transportation to your doctor10

Home meal delivery12

Personal Emergency Response System

Plan G Inspire4

Blue Shield Inspire (HMO)

Blue Shield Inspire (HMO D-SNP)

Blue Shield Select (PPO)14

Independence and Safe Mobility with AAA1

Vision benefits6

Hearing aid benefits

Quarterly allowance for over-the-counter (OTC) items77

Annual physical exam

Acupuncture and chiropractic8,9

Access to doctors on-call 24/7 by phone or video

Fitness and Wellness programs

Frames and eyeglass or contact lenses allowance

Transportation to your doctor10

Home meal delivery12

Personal Emergency Response System

13
9
11

Medicare Supplement Plan G Inspire4 members

Upon confirmation of enrollment in Medicare Supplement Plan G Inspire, members can activate the Independence and Safe Mobility with AAA benefit by contacting AAA toll-free at (844) 951-2100 (TTY: 711), 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week. 

Members will receive onboarding instructions from Blue Shield on how to activate the Independence and Safe Mobility with AAA benefit.

Medicare Advantage eligibility:

To be eligible for the Independence and Safe Mobility with AAA Special Supplemental Benefit for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI), you must have one or more select chronic conditions.  Please refer to the “Attestation for Independence and Safe Mobility with AAA Special Supplemental Benefit for the Chronically Ill” (SSBCI) form for the list of chronic conditions and instructions on how to complete and submit the form to Blue Shield of California. 

Attestation for Independence and Safe Mobility with AAA Special Supplemental Benefit for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI) form (PDF, 89 KB)

For questions on eligibility requirements, please contact Blue Shield Customer Care at (800) 776-4466 (TTY: 711) 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., seven days a week. For members enrolled in D-SNP plans, please contact D-SNP Customer Care (800) 452-4413 (TTY: 711).

Upon confirmation of eligibility, members will receive onboarding instructions from Blue Shield of California on how to activate the Independence and Safe Mobility with AAA supplemental benefit.

Talk to a Blue Shield Medicare Adviser