MINNETONKA, Minn., April
4, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- UnitedHealthcare with
Global Healthcare Resources has launched the Step Up for Better
Health Sweepstakes, a national initiative to encourage walking and
in support of Boys & Girls Clubs.
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 UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare 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.
CONTACT:
Will Shanley
UnitedHealthcare
(714) 204-8005
will.shanley@uhc.com
*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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