My MedCost vs ActiveMD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My MedCost
Manage your health plan benefits, claims, and ID card on the go. Find in-network providers, check balances, and receive personalized health alerts. Access your health records and connect with customer service easily.
- Check benefits and coverage
- Search claims and details
- View ID card information
- Search for in-network doctors
- Get personalized Care Alerts
- Check flex or HRA balance
- Access personal health record
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With My MedCost for MedCost Benefit Services health plan members, you can: * Check benefits and coverage information * Search claims and see details while you’re on the go * See and use your ID card information * Grant or deny members on your account access to your personal health information * Search for in-network doctors, specialists, and facilities in your area * Get personalized Care Alert reminders to help you improve your health * Check your flex or HRA balance and see claims, if applicable to your plan * Access your personal health record and online programs on the member website * Contact customer service
ActiveMD
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ActiveMD’s patient centric approach provides the medical fraternity (Providers / Hospitals / Allied Healthcare Professionals) with the practice & care management tools to deliver not only sick care but also proactive preventive care. It secure plug & play approach enables anywhere any time practice and virtual e-visits. It enhances: PRACTICE VISIBILITY: The healthcare professional’s achievements in helping patients are available for others to see and increase patient flow into the practice. PRACTICE EFFICIENCY: It allows physicians to manage their calendar have patient wait lists that automatically fill the slots of cancelled appointments and prevent loss of revenue. Patients who need review and have missed their visits can be called in for RE-CARE and improve patient compliance. PRACTICE REACH: Extend your practice boundaries. Increase visibility among the consumers / patients and increase traffic to your practice. Supplement physical visits with E-Visits. HOW THIS WORKS: CIRCLE OF CARE is established around a patient. Distributed virtual care teams coordinate care through Provider – Provider & Provider – Patient communication through secured modes. The remote device less monitoring and bedside reviews at home prevents adverse events. After patients leave the physician’s office this generates alerts on their GAPS IN CARE in real time and allow for interventions. A CONTINUITY OF CARE RECORD coupled with a Personal Health Records (PHR) & Medical Records Repository enables CARE TEAMS’s a longitudinal visibility into the health status of a patient. The ability to retrieve and review the Clinical Encounters details allows a quick response to care needs in an emergency. PATIENTS MANAGED: Its tool set allows Physician’s to address care needs by of all ages from Pre-Birth- Conception – Pregnancy - Infancy- Childhood- adolescence-Adulthood to Senior’s. It enables delivery of holistic care by addressing Mental – Social- Emotional- Physical - Spiritual Health needs. PATIENT HEALTH ASSESSMENT: It follows the robust workflow of ASSESS - SCORE – ACTION PLAN – TRACK & MONITOR – REVIEW – RECALIBRATE. It helps building & defining healthcare goals & tasks, monitor Lifestyle disorders, and provide interventions. With a strong focus on Mental Health issues in daily life and at workplace enables proactive interventions and improve quality of life. GAPS IN CARE: Near real time Visibility into the patient’s compliance, identify and alert Care Teams to address the gaps in care. It enables a proactive approach to prevent deterioration and an adverse event. Additional focus on Primary & Secondary Prevention helps prevent onset of disease, monitor & detect disease onset early and reverse / control it. This delays the onset of morbidity and adverse events to the twilight years. EMERGENCY RESPONSE: The tracking of care team member’s locations helps direct the nearest person to respond in the case of an emergency need of a patient. HEALTH AT HOME: The tools allow tracking patients’ needs through continuous review through patient assisted around capture of data points that enable acute & chronic condition monitoring and undertake virtual beside visits. PROVIDER SOCIAL LOUNGE: This allows the providers to share experiences, provide clinical and discussion forums. Get Crowd Diagnosis on atypical patient presentations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ActiveMD at 11.0 against My MedCost's 14.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | My MedCost | ActiveMD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 107 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Medcost, LLC | Active Health Technologies LLP |
In-app purchases
My MedCost
No in-app purchases
ActiveMD
No in-app purchases









