UnitedHealthcare is expanding its Healthy Savings™ program to an
additional 550,000 plan participants in Wisconsin, enabling people
enrolled in self-funded employer, individual exchange and BadgerCare
Plus Medicaid plans to purchase healthier foods at discounted prices.
Healthy Savings provides potential monthly savings of more than $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 their card is activated online at www.uhcwihealthysavings.com,
participants will be able to shop for the promoted healthy foods and
scan their card during checkout at 119 Roundy’s Supermarkets locations
in Wisconsin, including four Metro Market®, 25 Copps® and 90 Pick ’n
Save® stores statewide.
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 discount.
The Healthy Savings website also enables people 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 in the healthiest
one-third of items in a grocery store. Healthy Savings offers discounts
on items such as milk, whole-grain bread, lean meats, yogurt and produce
from more than 140 brands. The food items are measured by the nationally
renowned Guiding Stars® nutrition guidance system, which rates the
nutritional quality of food using information from the nutrition facts
label and the ingredients list.
The technology behind the Healthy Savings program is powered by Solutran
Inc., a Minnesota-based technology company specializing in electronic
payment solutions.
In February, UnitedHealthcare introduced the Healthy Savings program to
more than 100,000 fully insured employer-based and Medicaid SSI plan
participants in Wisconsin. Since then, the program saw more than 400,000
visits to the Healthy Savings website, prompting UnitedHealthcare to
expand the program to additional plan participants statewide, including
BadgerCare Plus members beginning May 1, and people enrolled in
self-funded employer and individual exchange plan participants beginning
July 1. Self-funded employer plans will have the ability to opt into the
program to provide their employees access to Healthy Savings.
“Healthy Savings gives people the opportunity to make healthier food
choices and improve their diets, which will enhance their health and
well-being,” said Dustin Hinton, president and CEO, UnitedHealthcare of
Wisconsin. “The feedback from our plan participants during the first few
months of the program has been tremendous, and demonstrates that people
want to eat healthier. By expanding Healthy Savings we are able to
deliver healthy options to a wider audience at a lower cost.”
“Healthy Savings provides our plan participants throughout Wisconsin
additional opportunities to make healthier food choices and live
healthier lives,” said Pamela Stahl, CEO, UnitedHealthcare Community
Plan of Wisconsin. “Healthy Savings is another resource allowing
families to have access to healthy foods at affordable prices.”
UnitedHealthcare serves more than 1.4 million people in Wisconsin with a
care provider network of 142 hospitals and more than 25,000 physicians
statewide. UnitedHealthcare BadgerCare Plus coverage is available in 54
of the 72 counties throughout Wisconsin.
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 UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare
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
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