UnitedHealthcare Launches Step Up for Better Health Sweepstakes to Encourage Walking and Support Boys & Girls Clubs
March 29 2018 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
- Sweepstakes celebrates National
Walking Day and April’s Move More Month, enabling people to enter
for a chance to win one of hundreds of walking-related prizes,
including Apple Watch
- People can sign the pledge to walk
more and enter the sweepstakes at uhcwalkingmaps.com,
which provides 10,000-step walking routes in more than 50 cities
across the country
- UnitedHealthcare will donate a total
of $25,000 on behalf of the first 25,000 people to sign the pledge
to Boys & Girls Clubs to help reduce childhood obesity
UnitedHealthcare has launched the Step Up for Better Health
Sweepstakes, a national initiative to encourage walking and in
support of Boys & Girls Clubs.
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April is recognized as Move More Month,
so UnitedHealthcare has launched the Step Up for Better Health
Sweepstakes to encourage people to walk and in support of Boys
& Girls Clubs (Graphic: UnitedHealthcare).
The sweepstakes celebrates National Walking Day (April 4) and
runs throughout Move More Month (April), enabling people to become
eligible for a chance to win one of hundreds of walking-related
prizes, including:
- Grand Prizes: Apple Watch® (10
available);
- First Prizes: $100 gift cards to Foot
Locker (100 available); and
- Family Prizes: NERF® ENERGY™ Game Kits
(100 available).
People can sign the pledge to walk more and enter the
sweepstakes at uhcwalkingmaps.com, an online resource that provides
information about the potential health benefits of walking and
offers 10,000-step walking routes in more than 50 cities, helping
people visualize what that distance looks like in their local
areas*. UnitedHealthcare will donate $1 on behalf of each of the
first 25,000 people to sign the pledge to Boys & Girls Clubs to
help reduce childhood obesity and encourage kids to become more
active.
Studies have shown walking can help people maintain a healthier
weight, strengthen bones, ward off depression, and prevent or
manage various chronic conditions, including heart disease, high
blood pressure and type 2 diabetes.
“We hope our Step Up for Better Health Sweepstakes helps
encourage people to become more active and use walking as a way to
improve their health,” said Sam Ho, M.D., chief medical officer of
UnitedHealthcare. “Walking can be a simple, accessible and
effective way for most people to help improve their well-being, so
we encourage all who are capable to get or stay active in April and
year round.”
UnitedHealthcare offers various wellness programs that help
encourage people to take charge of their health**.
For example, UnitedHealthcare Motion® is a digital wellness
program that provides eligible plan participants access to wearable
devices that may enable them to earn more than $1,000 per plan year
by meeting certain daily walking goals***. Through the program,
enrollees will later this year have the option to receive and start
using Apple Watch (initially paying only tax and shipping), and
apply program earnings toward the full purchase price of the
device.
UnitedHealthcare Motion is available to employers with
self-funded and fully insured health plans nationwide. The program
may enable employees to earn up to $4 per day in financial
incentives based on achieving “FIT” goals, which stands for:
- Frequency: complete 500 steps within
seven minutes six times per day, at least an hour apart;
- Intensity: complete 3,000 steps within
30 minutes; and
- Tenacity: complete at least 10,000
total steps each day.
Since UnitedHealthcare Motion’s inception, participants have
collectively walked more than 180 billion steps and earned nearly
$30 million in rewards. Among eligible employees, 66 percent
registered their devices, with more than two-thirds of those active
with the program.
UnitedHealthcare developed the program in collaboration with
Qualcomm Life, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, and leverages
its open ecosystem of integrated devices. The program uses Qualcomm
Life’s medical-grade connectivity and expertise in HIPAA-compliant,
secure data transmission from integrated devices to
UnitedHealthcare via the program’s mobile app.
About
UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping
people live healthier lives and making the health system work
better for everyone by simplifying the health care experience,
meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining trusted
relationships with care providers. In the United States,
UnitedHealthcare offers the full spectrum of health benefit
programs for individuals, employers, and Medicare and Medicaid
beneficiaries, and contracts directly with more than 1.2 million
physicians and care professionals, and 6,500 hospitals and other
care facilities nationwide. The company also provides health
benefits and delivers care to people through owned and operated
health care facilities in South America. UnitedHealthcare is one of
the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified
health care company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare
at www.uhc.com or follow @UHC on Twitter.
* Check with your doctor to determine what activity level
is right for you.** Participation in any UnitedHealthcare
product or program is not a requirement to participate in the
sweepstakes.*** Financial incentives may be less due to limits
under applicable laws.
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. PURCHASE WILL NOT
INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. Open to legal residents of 50
U.S. and D.C., 18 or older. To Enter: Visit www.UHCWalkingmaps.com
(“Website”) between 12:01 AM CT on 3/29/18 and 11:59 PM CT on
4/30/18, follow online instructions, and agree to take the “Step Up
for Better Health” Pledge to be healthier. Prizes: Grand (10):
Apple Watch® (ARV $329); First (100): $100 Foot Locker® gift card;
Second (100): NERF® ENERGY™ kit (ARV $35). Limit 1 entry per
person. Odds of winning depend on number of eligible entries
received for each drawing. See Website for drawing dates, details,
limitations & Official Rules. United HealthCare Services, Inc.,
Minnetonka, MN 55343.
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UnitedHealthcareWill Shanley,
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