Use your Optimum Choice HMO Benefits

• 1). Find your primary care physician (PCP). If you don't already have one, you will have to find a PCP who participates in the Optimum Choice network in your area. If you need to look one up, go to Step 2.
  
  
• 2). Log on to the Optimum Choice website.
  
  
• 3). Click on "find a physician" from the menu at the very top of the screen.
  
  
• 4). Scroll to the bottom and click the link to "My UHC."
  
  
• 5). Click on "find a physician" in the menu on the right side.
  
  
• 6). Click "Search for a physician."
  
  
• 7). Select search criteria desired. Under item 2, select "Optimum Choice" or "Optimum Choice Preferred" from the pull-down menu, as applicable.
  
  
• 8). Select a physician and call to make an appointment.
  
  

At the Doctor's

• 1). Be prepared to pay a small co-pay for the doctor visit, depending on your plan.
  
  
• 2). Bring your HMO card, or have your Optimum Choice member number handy.
  
  
• 3). Fill out paperwork as directed by the physician office staff.
  
  
• 4). The staff should take the billing from there. Inspect records carefully, so you know your insurance company is being billed for the correct procedure.