Healthy Savings Program Helps Make Healthier Foods More Affordable for UnitedHealthcare Plan Participants
August 03 2015 - 09:30AM
Business Wire
- Up to 100,000 eligible
UnitedHealthcare plan participants in northern Illinois and
northwest Indiana can receive discounts on healthy food
options
- Pilot program includes member card
for use at multiple retail chains, making healthy foods more
affordable
- Available to people enrolled in
UnitedHealthcare fully insured employer-based health plans and
individual exchange plan participants
Starting in August, people in northern Illinois and northwest
Indiana who are enrolled in a UnitedHealthcare fully insured
employer-sponsored health plan or purchased health insurance on the
individual exchange will be able to buy healthier foods at
discounted prices through its Healthy Savings™ pilot program.
Healthy Savings provides potential monthly savings of $150 on
prequalified healthy foods from more than 140 food and beverage
brands. Eligible UnitedHealthcare plan participants will receive a
Healthy Savings card in the mail. After the card is activated
online at www.HealthySavingsUHC.com, participants can shop for
promoted healthy foods and scan their card during checkout at 184
Jewel-Osco®, 32 Mariano’s™ and 45 Shop 'n Save® locations
throughout Illinois and northwest Indiana. Forty-four County
Market® stores will be added in the fall.
Up to 100,000 UnitedHealthcare plan participants qualify for the
Healthy Savings program by working for an employer based in
northern Illinois (including Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy,
Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Iroquois, Lake, LaSalle, McHenry, Will and
Winnebago counties) or northwest Indiana (Lake, LaPorte and Porter
counties).
“Healthy Savings makes it easier for people to make healthier
food choices and improve their diets, which will make a tremendous
difference in their health and well-being,” said Colleen Van Ham,
president and CEO, UnitedHealthcare of Illinois and Northwest
Indiana.
With the Healthy Savings program there is no clipping, printing
or downloading of coupons, as discounts are preloaded on the
program card each week. Members simply shop for promoted healthier
foods and scan their card to automatically receive the
discounts.
The Healthy Savings website and mobile app enables shoppers to
find nearby participating grocery stores, track accumulated savings
through the program, view health information on serving sizes and
portions, create a shopping list, and find recipes using healthy
and nutritious ingredients.
Promotional discounts are offered weekly on products that are in
the healthiest one-third of items in a typical grocery store.
Healthy Savings offers include discounts on items such as milk,
whole-grain bread, lean meats, yogurt and produce. The food items
are scored by the nationally renowned Guiding Stars® nutrition
guidance system, which rates the nutritional density of foods using
information from the nutrition facts label and the ingredients
list.
UnitedHealthcare serves more than 1.3 million people in Illinois
and northwest Indiana with a network of 233 hospitals and more than
36,000 physicians and other care providers statewide.
The technology behind the Healthy Savings program is powered by
Solutran, Inc., a Minnesota-based technology company specializing
in electronic benefit transfer systems and payment solutions.
About Healthy
Savings™Healthy Savings is a program which enables
health insurance members to save on healthier foods without having
to clip, print or download coupons. Solutran S3™ technology serves
as the supporting substantiation platform behind the Healthy
Savings™ program. The mission of Healthy Savings™ is to unlock the
enormous potential within each individual with the goal of working
together to improve the way America eats.
About
UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping
people nationwide live healthier lives by simplifying the health
care experience, meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and
sustaining trusted relationships with care providers. The company
offers the full spectrum of health benefit programs for
individuals, employers, military service members, retirees and
their families, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and
contracts directly with more than 850,000 physicians and care
professionals, and 6,000 hospitals and other care facilities
nationwide. UnitedHealthcare is one of the businesses of
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified Fortune 50 health and
well-being company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare at
www.uhc.com or follow @myUHC on Twitter.
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Solutran, Inc.Danielle McCallum, 763-519-7215C:
320-290-0789dmccallum@solutran.comorUnitedHealthcareTony Marusic,
312-348-3825C: 312-363-7714tony_marusic@uhc.com
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