Virginia Medallion 4+

Virginia has finally created an online system to make changes to our healthcare plans and comparing which plan is best for our needs! As well as being able to easily search from providers that are covered by our insurance plan. I shouldn’t be this happy about this app but I am! Well done and very easy to navigate.

I attempted to enroll in a plan first and pick my provider later and it said that I was enrolled in every plan I clicked on and would have to contact my provider to change it. I wasn’t enrolled in anything. I finally had to pick a provider first and then pick a plan that worked with them, but I wanted to take more time to review providers before I picked a plan first. The process ended up taking much longer than it needed to. Otherwise, the app was mostly fine. I wish there was a way to click on the phone numbers though.

My main beef with medallion and what I consider a big one, is that the app does not allow or have ratings for doctors from people that have already seen and used them. Also, when enrolling for a provider the search function only works once and then you must go back a couple screens and retype everything or reselect everything to search again. These were worth giving the app an average rating for and personally probably should be lower as knowing what or how others feel about a doctor is sometimes the best and easiest way to choose a new doctor.