Health Plans

There’s a reason Kaiser Permanente has been giving away our guided meditation downloads to their members for free since 1994, with a whopping 74 percent adoption rate. Health insurance companies and HMOs are seeing real results with guided imagery, including:

Reduced cost, fewer complications, shorter length of stay, less anxiety, and lower use of analgesics for surgical procedures
Increased member satisfaction with their health plans
Associated with healthy behavior changes around smoking, weight management, alcohol use, sleep, and exercise
Improved blood glucose levels in people with diabetes
RCT’s demonstrate reduced pain, anxiety, and depression in arthritis patients and other rheumatic disease patients, with significant improvement in daily function and quality of life
Less of the anxiety, stress, and depression that drive 50 percent of office visits to primary care

Blue Shield sees results with pre-surgery guided meditation programs

After reading that guided imagery from Health Journeys helped significantly reduce hospital stays and alleviate multiple symptoms in patients, Blue Shield of California’s HMO began offering our programs to all members pre-approved for surgery. The guided imagery exercises, along with a pre-surgery phone check-in from a nurse, significantly increased member satisfaction rates and loyalty. Blue Shield also saw a 14% reduction in mean total charges billed per procedure, likely due to decreased lab and imaging fees, and less use of analgesics.