- More device options available for
UnitedHealthcare Motion, a wellness program that offers people
financial incentives of more than $1,000 per year for meeting daily
walking goals
- Samsung and Garmin® activity
trackers and smart watches are the latest devices available through
the ‘bring-your-own-device’ (BYOD) model, enabled by Qualcomm
Life
- UnitedHealthcare Motion participants
have collectively walked 130 billion steps, earning more than $19
million in incentives since the program’s launch
UnitedHealthcare and Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM),
through its subsidiary Qualcomm Life, have integrated wearable
devices from Samsung Electronics America Inc. and Garmin
International, Inc., into UnitedHealthcare Motion™.
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The Samsung Gear Fit2 Pro has been
integrated into UnitedHealthcare Motion, providing eligible program
participants a new device option as part of the national wellness
program (Photo: Samsung Electronics America Inc.).
UnitedHealthcare Motion is a national wellness program that
provides eligible plan participants access to activity trackers and
enables them to earn more than $1,000 per year by meeting certain
daily walking goals.
The Samsung Gear Fit2 Pro and Gear Sport, and the Garmin
vívosmart® 3, have been integrated and validated with
Qualcomm Life’s 2net™ platform for medical-grade connectivity that
features multiple safeguards to help keep data secure.
UnitedHealthcare Motion participants who already own one of these
devices may be able to use them with the program.
UnitedHealthcare Motion is available to employers with
self-funded and fully insured health plans nationwide. The program
enables employees to earn up to $4 per day in financial incentives
based on achieving F.I.T. goals:
- 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 10,000 total steps
each day.
The integrated activity trackers, which are available to plan
participants at no additional charge or through upgrade options
that enable people to purchase leading activity trackers at
preferred prices, have been customized to enable users to see on
their wrists how they are tracking against the program’s three
daily F.I.T. goals. Research shows people who consistently achieve
the F.I.T. goals tend to improve their health and reduce their
medical expenses1.
All the activity trackers are available to people via a
dedicated website that offers device options, including previously
available activity trackers from Fitbit and Striiv.
Since UnitedHealthcare Motion’s inception, participants have
collectively walked more than 130 billion steps and earned more
than $19 million in rewards. Among eligible employees, 66 percent
registered their devices, with more than two-thirds of those
staying active with the program for more than one year.
“The enhancements to UnitedHealthcare Motion enable the program
to offer companies and their employees more digital health and
wellness resources that are personalized, connected and intuitive,”
said Sam Ho, M.D., chief medical officer of UnitedHealthcare. “We
are expanding the portfolio of available devices to make
UnitedHealthcare Motion more flexible, convenient and consumer
friendly.”
Qualcomm Life, a wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, leverages
its global connected health ecosystem and connectivity expertise to
provide secure data transfer from the devices, to the Motion app
and to UnitedHealthcare. Qualcomm Life also enables the BYOD model
to allow the integration of more activity trackers into the 2net
Platform and UnitedHealthcare Motion, providing participants with
more choice.
“This program highlights the value of combing UnitedHealthcare’s
pro-consumer benefit designs with Qualcomm Life’s expertise in
providing seamless connectivity across a growing ecosystem of
wearable devices to help people pursue their health and wellness
goals,” said James Mault, M.D., F.A.C.S., senior vice president and
chief medical officer of Qualcomm Life. “Studies have shown walking
can be an effective way to help improve well-being and reduce
medical costs, and we are seeing how UnitedHealthcare Motion helps
people take charge of their health.”
Employers are expected to incorporate more than 13 million
wearable and fitness tracking devices into their wellness programs
by 2018, according to technology consultancy Endeavors Partners. A
related study published in Science & Medicine showed people
tend to overestimate how much exercise they get each week by more
than 50 minutes, and they underestimate sedentary time by more
than two hours, underscoring the importance of a wellness program
like UnitedHealthcare Motion.
“Our motivation for implementing this program was simple:
creating a happier and healthier workforce,” said Thomas Williams,
director of finance of Wayne Densch, a Florida-based distribution
company that adopted the program in 2016 and has seen a significant
reduction in health care costs. “We recognize that wearable devices
can help reduce our company’s overall health care costs and engage
employees in our wellness program, enabling them to track their
daily activity levels and improve their health and well-being.”
About Qualcomm
IncorporatedQualcomm’s technologies powered the
smartphone revolution and connected billions of people. We
pioneered 3G and 4G – and now, we are leading the way to 5G and a
new era of intelligent, connected devices. Our products are
revolutionizing industries including automotive, computing, IoT and
healthcare, and are allowing millions of devices to connect with
each other in ways never before imagined. Qualcomm Incorporated
includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of our
patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of
Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, all
of our engineering, research and development functions, and all of
our products and services businesses, including our semiconductor
business, QCT, and our mobile, automotive, computing, IoT and
healthcare businesses. To learn more, visit Qualcomm’s website,
blog, Twitter and Facebook pages.
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 1 million 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
uhc.com or follow @UHC on Twitter.
2net is a product of Qualcomm Life, Inc. 2net is a trademark of
Qualcomm Incorporated, registered in the United States and other
countries.Garmin and vívosmart are registered trademarks of Garmin
Ltd. or its subsidiaries.
1 Savvy Sherpa. Dishman, R. et al. 2013. Physical Activity
Epidemiology. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
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