What is a Health Assessment?
A Health Assessment is an online questionnaire (accessible via www.myCIGNA.com for employees with CIGNA medical coverage) that covers areas including your current health conditions, family health history, lifestyle factors, and basic biometric information such as cholesterol, weight and blood pressure. The health assessment will provide you with a personalized health analysis, which will review the details of your contributing risk factors with recommended steps for improvement.
Why is CIGNA / ACBG asking for this information?
Due to the escalation of large medical claims and the increasing costs associated with healthcare, it is essential that we focus on the root cause of these rising medical costs in order to sustain as a company. Employees of ACBG are our most important asset, and the success of our company as a whole is dependent upon the health, productivity and success of our employees. We want to help our employees get and stay healthy. In order to understand where our organization stands as a whole, CIGNA is collecting this information so that they can outreach to those folks that may benefit from a health & wellness program. CIGNA will provide to ACBG consolidated aggregate data from all health assessments. (Aggregate means a compiled report of percentages, with no names or individual information, your private health information remains confidential – regulations of the health industry require that this information be kept confidential between CIGNA and the employee).
Will my employer be able to see my personal health information?
No, absolutely not. Your personal ID and password for accessing the health assessment on www.myCIGNA.com belong to you, and you are responsible for keeping it safe. This website is confidential and password secured. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) ensures that the security and privacy of your personal health information remains confidential. Your employer will not have access to any individual or identifiable health information from your health assessment.
What’s in it for me?
After completing the health assessment you will…
- Be able to identify and monitor your personal health status
- Obtain a personalized analysis of many preventable and common conditions
- Review details of your contributing risk factors
- Access recommended steps for your improving your health
By identifying potential risk factors and risky behavior, you can make the necessary changes now that will help you to live a longer and healthier life (for yourself and your family).
I do not have CIGNA coverage, how can I complete the Health Risk Assessment?
Employees that are currently not enrolled in a CIGNA medical plan will not have access to the online health assessment. Therefore, those employees looking to newly enroll in a CIGNA medical plan for 2009 will have access to the HRA after January 1, 2009.
Once I log on to www.myCIGNA.com how can I access the Health Risk Assessment?
Step 1: log on to www.myCIGNA.com with your username and password (don’t have a username/password? – click on the blue “Register” button and follow the instructions)
Step 2: Once logged in, on the right side of the page, you’ll see a box labeled “I want to…” – select the link that says “Take my health assessment.”
Step 3: On the next page, select your name. A new window will open to the my health & wellness center log-in page.
Step 4: On the log-in page, under “New Users,” select “Register for my health & wellness center”
Step 5: Follow the registration instructions and complete all required fields.
Step 6: When registration is complete, the next page will be the my health & wellness center home page. From here, you can take your health assessment.
