Healthy Savings Makes Nutritious Foods More Affordable for UnitedHealthcare & Oxford Plan Participants in New York & New Jersey
January 25 2018 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
- More than 250,000 eligible
UnitedHealthcare and Oxford plan participants in New York and New
Jersey can receive discounts on healthy food options at area
supermarkets
- Program includes mobile app and a
card for use at select retail chains
UnitedHealthcare and Oxford plan participants and their
dependents in New York and New Jersey who are enrolled in large
group, fully insured employer-sponsored health plans will be able
to buy healthy foods at discounted prices through the Healthy
Savings® program.
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Program participants receive a Healthy
Savings card in the mail. After the card is activated online at
HealthySavingsUHC.com, participants can purchase prequalified
healthy foods from more than 200 food and beverage brands. Healthy
Savings can reduce monthly grocery bills for eligible users by more
than $150 (Courtesy of UnitedHealthcare and Solutran).
Healthy Savings can reduce monthly grocery bills for eligible
users by more than $150. Shortly after their health plan renewal
date, program participants will receive a Healthy Savings card in
the mail and can download the Healthy Savings mobile app. After the
card is activated online at www.HealthySavingsUHC.com or
www.HealthySavingsOxford.com, participants can purchase
prequalified healthy foods from more than 200 food and beverage
brands.
With Healthy Savings, there is no clipping, printing or
downloading of coupons, as discounts are pre-loaded on accounts
each week. Users can scan their cards or mobile apps at checkout.
The discounts are instantly subtracted from their bill and are
printed on their receipt. Eligible participants can use the Healthy
Savings program at any of the more than 180 Stop & Shop® and
Western Beef® store locations. The Healthy Savings mobile app,
available at no charge at iTunes® or Google Play™, enables people
to view available discounts, find nearby participating grocery
stores and track accumulated savings through the program.
Weekly discounts are offered on products in the healthiest
one-third of items in a grocery store, including fresh produce,
milk, whole-grain bread, lean meats, eggs, yogurt and many other
products. The food items are qualified through the nationally
renowned Guiding Stars® nutrition guidance system, which rates the
nutritional quality of food using a patented scientific algorithm
that gives positive points for vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber
and whole grains, and negative points for things like fats,
cholesterol, sodium and sugar.
“Healthy Savings makes choosing healthier food easier and more
affordable for thousands of people throughout New York and New
Jersey,” said Michael McGuire, CEO, UnitedHealthcare of New York.
“We believe individuals and families will appreciate Healthy
Savings because it enables them to improve their diets, which can
improve their health and well-being.”
According to America’s Health Rankings® Annual Report, 26
percent of adults in New York and 27 percent of adults in New
Jersey are obese. Healthy Savings is designed to help people take
steps toward a healthier diet.
UnitedHealthcare made Healthy Savings available last year to
people enrolled in fully insured employer-based and individual
health plans in parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Virginia and
Washington, D.C. To date, program participants have saved more than
$1.4 million.
“We are on a mission to improve the way America eats,” said Chad
Kelly, chief marketing officer at Solutran, Inc., the parent
company and technology provider of Healthy Savings. “Access to and
affordability of healthy food continues to be barriers to better
health and well-being. Healthy Savings is making a big difference
by breaking down these barriers.”
UnitedHealthcare serves nearly 6 million people in New York and
New Jersey with a network of more than 550 hospitals and 130,000
physicians and other care providers.
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. The technology behind the
Healthy Savings program is powered by Solutran, Inc., a
Minnesota-based technology company specializing in electronic
benefit transfer systems and payment solutions.
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
www.uhc.com or follow @UHC on Twitter.
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UnitedHealthcareMary McElrath-Jones,
914-552-4671mary_r_mcelrath-jones@uhc.comorSolutran, Inc.Caitlin
Frear, 763-401-4403cfrear@solutran.com
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