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Maricopa County values the health and well being of our employees. That’s why we continue to improve our employee worksite wellness program by offering the following health and wellness initiatives for the upcoming benefit year, effective July 1, 2008.

Because your health is our primary concern, we would like to offer you some financial savings as an incentive to participate. Please read further to understand how to save at least $240 on your health insurance premiums in the coming FY 08/09.

Confidential Biometric Screening Initiative (Starts on 04/02/08 and ends on 05/02/08)

The confidential employee biometric screening includes a brief questionnaire as well as measurements for height, weight, waist circumference, body mass index, cholesterol, glucose, and blood pressure and will be performed at the worksite or through CIGNA Medical Centers.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention technology will be used to analyze the screening data and the results will be available immediately.

Health Risk Assessment Initiative (Starts on 04/02/08 and ends on 05/02/08)

This initiative asks you to complete a brief 15 minute online Health Risk Assessment, by using the results of your confidential biometric screening, and may provide insight or answers on ways you can improve your health. This will be available online through www.myCIGNA.com (For instructions on how to register with myCIGNA.com, click here).

Based on the results of your Biometric Screening and/or Health Risk Assessment, a health coach provided by Magellan Health Services may call you. The Magellan Health Coaching program is a confidential program that provides a coach who will work one on one with you, at your pace, to help you identify and achieve your health and wellness goals.

What Happens to Your Results?
It is important to note that your confidential individual data is protected by State and Federal regulations including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Maricopa County will never see your confidential protected individual results. Only you will see the results!
Maricopa County will receive an executive summary report showing aggregate data without individually identifiable results. The executive summary report will reveal the prevalence of certain conditions, such as percent of the employees with high blood pressure, percent of the employees with weight management issues, etc. This report will be used to continuously improve the employee worksite wellness program.

What’s in it for You?
As you know, each year health insurance costs increase. Next year, your cost might increase at least by $20 a month or more! To help reduce the cost increase, you can save $10 a month on your medical insurance, per initiative, by voluntarily participating in these initiatives. That means, if you participate in both the Health Risk Assessment and the Biometric Screening, you can save $20 a month or $240 per year, on your medical insurance, offered through Maricopa County for the upcoming benefit year effective July 1, 2008!

Participation in these initiatives applies only to you. If you have completed the March 2008 – Walgreen’s Blueprint for Wellness Screening, you do not need to ‘retake’ the biometric screening or the health risk assessment. This is “good news”, you have already saved $20 a month for the upcoming benefit year! In order to receive the medical insurance savings for the new plan year, effective July 1, 2008, you must complete these voluntary initiatives before May 2, 2008 and before you complete your online Open Enrollment elections.

Open Enrollment is scheduled to begin on April 14, 2008 and scheduled to end on May 2, 2008. Plan design information and premium rates for the new plan year will be available online at the Employee Health Initiatives Home Page shortly before April 14, 2008. We encourage you to participate in these initiatives in order to learn how you can take more control of your health and well-being.

If you have questions, please call the Employee Health Initiatives Department at 602-506-1010 or you can send an email to benefitsservice@mail.maricopa.gov. Additionally, a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) is located on the Employee Health Initiatives Home Page or by clicking here.

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