Note: This program is for employees who enrolled in the 2014 Value or Buy-Up medical plan.
Health Assessment is 100% Confidential
The online assessment is administered by United Healthcare and 100% confidential. Your proof of compliance is the date you completed and submitted the health assessment through myuhc.com. The HA takes about 15 minutes to complete, and can be completed from any computer, at any time. If you do not have your biometric numbers handy, such as your cholesterol or body mass index, you can always give your doctor a call and use the numbers from your last visit.
Here's What You Do
- Visit myuhc.com
- Login with your username and password (or register and create an account)
- Hit the blue button on the far right side "Health Assessment"
- Complete the security questions
- Complete your HA to best of your ability
- Hit submit
Paycheck Credits
Your Health Assessment is the gateway to all your other wellness pledges. By completing your HA before December 31, 2014 you will be eligible to collect partial 2015 paycheck credits of $10 per bi-weekly paycheck and $10.83 for semi-monthly. Because you missed the first two deadline dates of September 30 and October 31, your credits will be delayed by 4-8 weeks. This credit will not be retroactive.
Next Year's Pledge Program
We hope this newly designed program helped to give you a reality check on your preventive care routine this year. Moving into 2015 the health system will continue to offer financial incentives in exchange for your healthy actions. There will be very little change to the program in 2015. Let's review:
- The Wellness Video Pledge will no longer be offered in 2015
- A new pledge (currently in design) will the added to replace the Video
- The Pledge Program will be referred to as the Annual Pledge Program to encourage your preventive care routine - all year long!
3 comments:
I completed my Health assessment on Nov 17th and I know it should be updated the 3rd monday of this month but When I go in to do my open enrollments it says my Pledge credits are set to waived and there is no box to change it. Will it automatically be changed once the system is updated with my health assessment
In response to December 15 at 4:20 pm - Yes, your date of service/completion date will be loaded in your wellness summary on or about today. Your patience is appreciated. Thanks for your interest in the program.
In response to Noel on December 29 at 10:29 pm - Welcome! As a new employee who is new to the medical plan through United Healthcare you have six months to comply with the program. Let me explain further. Beginning with your first paycheck in 2015 you will see all four pledge credits offsetting the cost of your benefits. These credits will continue for six months. To comply with the program you will need to complete four healthy actions during those six months (the online Health Assessment being one of them). If you do not complete any of the pledges your paycheck credits will cease in July yet you will not owe the health system any money back.
If you complete your four pledges (health assessment being one of them) within six months (deadline June 30, 2015) you will not only receive full credits in 2015 but this will also count for 2016.
To further clarify, if you only complete the Health Assessment and let's say one other by June 30 - you will receive partial credits through the end of December, and still have the opportunity to complete in the second part of 2015 for maximum amount of 2016 credits.
For more information, read the blog posted on September 16, Pledge Program for New Hires.
Best of luck and health in your new career at North Shore-LIJ!
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