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Your plan, as required by WHCRA, provides benefits for mastectomy-related services including all stages of reconstruction and surgery to achieve symmetry between the breasts, prostheses, and complications resulting from a mastectomy, including lymphedema. For more information regarding this coverage, please refer to your Medical Benefit Booklet or go to kehp.ky.gov (Resources/Docs, Forms, and Legal Notices link)
If you have questions or concerns regarding this notice, or about protections against discrimination and retaliation, please contact the Department of Employee Insurance, Member Services Branch at (888) 581-8834 or (502) 564-6534.
Appropriate precautions will be taken to avoid any data breach. In the event a data breach occurs involving information you provide in connection with the wellness program, we will notify you as soon as it is feasible after discovery of the breach.
KEHP is committed to helping you achieve your best health. Incentives for participating in KEH wellness program are available to all persons who enroll in a KEHP health insurance plan and spouse. If you are unable to participate in any of the health-related activities, or you think you
Additional incentives in the form of gift cards, consumer goods, and other prizes may be available for employees who participate in certain health-related activities such as walking challenges or quitting smoking. In addition, KEHP offers discounted, monthly employee premium contribution rates to non-tobacco users. Each KEHP member has at least one opportunity per Plan Year to qualify for the monthly premium contribution discount.
LivingWell is KEHP's voluntary wellness program available to all persons who enroll in a KEHP health insurance plan and their enrolled spouse. The program is administered according to federal rules permitting employer-sponsored wellness programs that seek to improve employee health or prevent disease. Those federal rules include the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, as applicable, among others. If you choose to participate in the wellness program, you will be asked to complete a voluntary health assessment (or "HA") that asks a series of questions about your health-related activities and behaviors and whether you have or had certain medical conditions (e.g., cancer, diabetes, or heart disease). You are not required to complete the HA. However, employees who choose to participate in the LivingWell wellness program will receive an incentive in the form of discounted employee premium contributions for the employee's health insurance coverage. Although you are not required to complete the HA, only employees who do so will receive the discounted health insurance premiums.
If you or your children are eligible for Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and you're eligible for health coverage from your employer, Kentucky may have a premium assistance program that can help pay for coverage using funds from the state's Medicaid or CHIP programs. If you or your dependent(s) are eligible for premium assistance under Medicaid or CHIP, as well as eligible for health insurance coverage through KEEP, your employer must allow you to enroll in KEEP if you aren't already enrolled. This is called a "special enrollment" opportunity, and you must request coverage within 60 days of being determined eligible for premium assistance. In addition, you may enroll in KEEP if you or your dependent's Medicaid or CHIP coverage is terminated because of loss of eligibility. An employee must request this special enrollment within 60 days of the loss of coverage. You can find more information and the required CHIP notice at kehp.ky.gov (Resources/Docs, Forms, and Legal Notices link).
personally identifiable health information to these persons is necessary in order to provide you with services under the wellness program.
disclose any of your personal information either publicly or to your employer, except as necessary to respond to a request from you for a reasonable accommodation needed to participate in the wellness program, or as expressly permitted by law. Medical information that personally identifies you that is provided in connection with the wellness program will not be provided to your supervisors or managers and may never be used to make decisions regarding your employment.
that does not identify any individual in order to design programs based on health risks the workplace and that are aimed at improving the health of KEHP members. KEHP will nev
If you have a new dependent as a result of marriage, birth, adoption, or placement for adoption, you may be able to enroll yourself and your new dependent(s). However, you must request enrollment within 30 days after the marriage, birth, adoption, or placement for adoption.
If you decline enrollment for yourself or your eligible dependent(s) (including your spouse) because of other health insurance or group health plan coverage (regardless of whether the coverage was obtained inside or outside of a Marketplace), you may be able to enroll yourself and your dependents in this plan if you or your dependents lose eligibility for that other coverage (or if the employer stops contributing toward your or your dependents' other coverage). However, you must request enrollment within 30 days after your or your dependents' other coverage ends (or after the employer stops contributing toward the other coverage).
Protections from Disclosure of Medical Information: KEHP is required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your personally identifiable health information. KEHP does not collect or retain personal health or medical information through its LivingWell wellness program unless it is part of an audit, compliance, payment, operations, or customer service review; however, KEHP may receive and use aggregate information that does not identify any individual in order to design programs based on health risks
Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), you have “special enrollment” rights if you have a loss of other coverage or you gain a new dependent. In addition, you may qualify for a special enrollment in KEHP under the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA).
unable to meet a standard to earn an incentive under the LivingWell wellness program, you may request a reasonable accommodation or an alternative standard. Contact the Department of Employee Insurance, Member Services Branch at (888) 581-8834 or (502) 564-6534 and we will work with you (and, if you wish, with your doctor) to find a wellness program with the same incentive that is right for you in light of your health status.