UnitedHealthcare to Provide Millions of Members with Year-Long Access to the Peloton App
July 20 2021 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
- Starting Sept. 1, eligible UnitedHealthcare members will be
able to access thousands of live and on-demand classes via the
Peloton App for up to 12 months, or receive a four-month waiver
toward their All-Access Membership, at no additional cost
- The UnitedHealthcare offer is the first of its kind between
Peloton and a health plan, helping both organizations achieve their
joint goal of making fitness and overall wellness more attainable
and accessible
UnitedHealthcare, part of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH), and
Peloton (Nasdaq: PTON) are working together to provide millions of
Americans with access — at no additional cost — to classes that can
help improve their overall fitness and well-being, the first such
relationship between Peloton and a health plan.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted many
people to turn to on-demand health and fitness routines to help
maintain or improve their well-being, including the use of digital
resources such as the Peloton App. Source: UnitedHealthcare
As of Sept. 1, as part of their plan benefits, millions of fully
insured UnitedHealthcare members can enroll with Peloton to obtain
access to Peloton's best-in-class, multidiscipline fitness classes,
helping integrate exercise into their daily routines. New and
existing Peloton Members are eligible to enroll.
“Many Americans may be turning to on-demand exercise options to
help improve their fitness and bolster their overall well-being,
and this first-of-its-kind relationship with Peloton will provide
millions of our members with an important resource to help them
along their paths toward a healthier lifestyle,” said Philip
Kaufman, Chief Operating Officer, UnitedHealthcare Employer &
Individual. “Expanding access to Peloton’s industry-leading health
and wellness community builds upon our commitment to developing
digital health resources and consumer-centric benefits to help
people live healthier lives.”
“Peloton Members have always shared how much movement and
activity positively impacts their mental, physical and emotional
health. Knowing that we can positively impact our Members' lives
and help them be the best versions of themselves is one of the
reasons we are collaborating with UnitedHealthcare and launched
Peloton Corporate Wellness to work directly with organizations,”
said William Lynch, President, Peloton. “Peloton and
UnitedHealthcare are both committed to making movement and fitness
more accessible and available and we can't wait to welcome
UnitedHealthcare members to the Peloton community.”
Following are key details of the offer:
- Nearly 4 million UnitedHealthcare commercial members will
have the option to access Peloton’s fitness classes via the Peloton
App, giving people enrolled in qualified fully insured
employer-sponsored plans a 12-month subscription to a Peloton
Digital Membership or a four-month waiver for a Peloton All-Access
Membership at no additional cost.* Peloton All-Access Members can
take live or on-demand classes on their Peloton Connected Fitness
products and track their personal metrics, plus have access to
content via the Peloton App.
- Available via the Peloton App or through a Peloton Bike, Bike+,
Tread, or Tread+ as an All-Access Member, UnitedHealthcare members
will be able to take thousands of live and on-demand fitness
classes for strength, yoga, outdoor running, indoor cycling,
walking and meditation. The Peloton App is available on Apple and
Android devices, Apple TV, Fire TV, Roku TVs and Chromecast and
Android TV.
- Eligible UnitedHealthcare members will receive details via
email about activating their Peloton membership starting Sept.
1 or thereafter depending on the health plan’s effective date.
Once eligible members receive a personalized code, they can use it
to activate their 12-month subscription to a Peloton Digital
Membership or a four-month subscription to a Peloton All-Access
Membership at no additional cost. At the end of the 12-month
membership, UnitedHealthcare plan participants will have the
opportunity to renew the Peloton Digital Membership at the market
rate directly through Peloton; UnitedHealthcare members will not be
automatically enrolled beyond the 12-month offer.
Each year, UnitedHealthcare invests more than $3.5 billion in
data, technology and innovation, integrating human support,
advanced data analytics and unique collaborations to help improve
the quality and affordability of health care. Millions of
UnitedHealthcare members have access to various well-being
programs, including technology-enabled initiatives such as
UnitedHealthcare Motion® and Renew Active® for eligible members
enrolled in Medicare plans.
More information about the collaboration is available at
uhc.com/peloton.
*Program available to UnitedHealthcare plan participants 18
years and older with access to myuhc.com and who enroll in
Peloton’s consumer subscription offering in accordance with the
Peloton Terms of Service and Membership Terms; some additional
limitations or state-specific restrictions may apply.
UnitedHealthcare plan participants may use only one (1) code per
All-Access Membership. Please check with your UnitedHealthcare
representative for more information.
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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 1.3 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.
About Peloton Peloton is the
leading interactive fitness platform in the world with a loyal
community of more than 5.4 million Members. The company pioneered
connected, technology-enabled fitness, and the streaming of
immersive, instructor-led boutique classes for its Members anytime,
anywhere. Peloton makes fitness entertaining, approachable,
effective, and convenient, while fostering social connections that
encourage its Members to be the best versions of themselves. An
innovator at the nexus of fitness, technology, and media, Peloton
has reinvented the fitness industry by developing a
first-of-its-kind subscription platform that seamlessly combines
the best equipment, proprietary networked software, and world-class
streaming digital fitness and wellness content, creating a product
that its Members love. The brand's immersive content is accessible
through the Peloton Bike, Peloton Tread, Peloton Bike+, Peloton
Tread+, and Peloton App, which allows access to a full slate of
fitness classes across disciplines, on any iOS or Android device,
Apple TV, Fire TV, Roku TVs, and Chromecast and Android TV. Founded
in 2012 and headquartered in New York City, Peloton has a growing
number of retail showrooms across the US, UK, Canada and Germany.
For more information, visit www.onepeloton.com.
Plans are insured through UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company or
one of its affiliated companies, a Medicare Advantage organization
with a Medicare contract. Enrollment in the plan depends on the
plan’s contract renewal with Medicare.
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Will Shanley UnitedHealthcare (714) 204-8005
will.shanley@uhc.com
Amelise Lane Peloton press@peloton.com
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