re: Anybody use Healthways Fitness Your Way through Blue Cross?

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The way I understood that it worked was you sign up at any of the available gyms and pay the normal gym membership fee. When you use Healthways it's $29 a month and Healthways mails you the difference in a check every month.

So if Snap is $40, Healthways would send a check reimbursing you for $11. Which means you only spent $29 a month.

Is that how it works?

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You pay Healthways $25/mo. They send you a card. You take that card to any participating gym and they sign you up as a member. No financial transaction happens between you and the gym. The gyms bill Healthways then Healthways bills you

Thanks for helping clarify. I have to go talk to get it straight at the gym this morning.

This is how it works:

You pay Blue Cross $25 down, $25 a month. There is a 3 month minimum. Blue Cross pays Healthways, and Healthways pays whatever gym you visit on a per visit basis. You will likely have multiple check-in cats, one for the gym you visit and a Healthways Prime card that looks like a credit card.

Snap and Anytime will lie to you and tell you that you sign up with them. They them get a guaranteed monthly payment which also keeps you from going to other gyms and locks you in at their club.

Just signed up
Thanks for the info

of course mine doesnt work.

boooooooo

if snap is still on the list for Lafayette, it is outdated, they all quit doing it.

they get paid based on when you show up. I havent tried using the anytime fob at a different one yet, but i imagine it would work fine.

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Snap and Anytime will lie to you and tell you that you sign up with them.

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That's more a practice of a shitty manager or owner. Snap and Anytime would not encourage this behavior. Unfortunately they can't monitor the day to day practices of every franchisee.

They don't want you going to other clubs because they only get paid for visits to their club. When I ran some Anytimes in BR we embraced it and didn't pull any bullshite. Going to other clubs is a part of the membership and if we were doing our job right people will want to use ours more often than not anyway.

I enrolled and use Anytime Fitness. It was easy with me and they were cool about it.

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It looks like a lot of the anytime's aren't on the list. But with anytime once you have a card, can you use it at any of them? I've never been in an anytime or snap. Do they have squat racks?

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Even if they arent on the list, some will still honor it. They would be stupid not to. Either they want more business or they dont. You have to be a member of an Anytime for at least a month first prior to working out at other Anytime's. Yes, they have squat racks. No they are never used. My one gripe is they have Precor machines, which I absolutely hate. Ive been used to Bodymasters and Hammer Strength my entire life and the Precor machines have a very ackward range of motion and dont support your body the way it is supposed to be supported in alot of the lifts. For example, the plate loaded seated row doesnt have a chest pad to push your body against, which in turn puts all the weight on your lower back even with perfect form. Coming from a gym that had a Hammer Srength seated row, this one absolutely sucks.