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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 including existing AAA Members, receive the following benefits:

Driver with Classic AAA membership

One-Year New or Renewal Classic AAA Membership

With 24/7 roadside assistance, included with your plan, annually upon enrollment.²

Senior couple using AAA Roadwise Driver

AAA Roadwise Driver

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

Driver using AAA Educational Driving Resources

Access to Educational Driving Resources

Online tools, such as AAA Roadwise Rx³ – 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 benefit¹

Choose from our Medicare plans that include our Independence and Safe Mobility with AAA benefit¹

  • 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 of the benefits included with our Plan G Extra, plus the Independence and Safe Mobility with AAA benefit, with more than $3,000 in extra benefits5, including:
    • NEW! Acupuncture and chiropractic services6
    • Vision and hearing aid benefits7
    • Quarterly allowance for over-the-counter (OTC) items8
    • Access to doctors on-call 24/7 
    • Access to fitness and wellness programs, PLUS
    • One-Year New or Renewal Classic AAA Membership, included with your plan, annually upon enrollment2
      • AAA Roadwise DriverTM
      • 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 services9,10
    • 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, included with your plan annually upon enrollment4,2 
      • AAA Roadwise DriverTM
      • 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 a Blue Shield Inspire HMO plan and a personal Care Navigator to help coordinate your benefits such as:
    • Hearing aids benefit
    • Transportation to your doctor11
    • Frames and eyeglass lenses or contact lenses allowance
    • Home meal delivery13
    • Over-the-counter items allowance8PLUS
    • One-year new or renewal Classic AAA Membership,2 included with your plan, annually upon enrollment4,2
      • AAA Roadwise DriverTM
      • Access to Educational Driving Resources

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  • Blue Shield Select (PPO)

    Our Blue Shield Select (PPO) 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 services9
    • Over-the-counter items allowance8
    • 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 enrollmenta4,2
      • AAA Roadwise DriverTM
      • Access to Educational Driving Resources

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Compare Blue Shield’s Medicare plan options with our Independence and Safe Mobility with AAA benefit⁴

Plan G Inspire2

Inspire (HMO)

Inspire (HMO D-SNP)

Inspire (HMO PPO)

Independence and Safe Mobility with AAA1

Vision benefits7

Hearing aid benefits

Quarterly allowance for over-the-counter (OTC) items8

Annual physical exam

Acupuncture and chiropractic services9,10

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 doctor11

Home meal delivery13

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

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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