Learn about your health risks and save money too!
HEM pays employees an incentive to learn your health risks and take steps to reduce those risks when possible. When you take part in HEM:
- PEBB pays you a taxable incentive of $17.50 per month, and
- You keep your medical plan deductible low.
If you decide not to take part, you will have a higher deductible. You will also miss out on a monthly incentive.
Easy steps to take part in HEM
Current medical plan enrollees:
- Enroll in a PEBB medical plan for 2023 between Oct. 1 and Oct. 31, 2022.
Be sure to state you plan to take part in HEM.
- Take your health assessment on your
current medical carrier's website between Sept. 1 and Oct. 31, 2022: Health assessments done outside of these dates will not be accepted.
Be sure to print or save your completion certificate.
- Complete two health actions during the plan year. You don't have to report them. You just need to let us know you did them at open enrollment next year.
Employees without medical coverage
(Opt-out, decline members, or employees who have never enrolled:)
Normally to take part in HEM, members take a health assessment on their current medical plan's website. Even though you are not enrolled in a medical plan this year you can still take part in HEM though. You just need to enroll in medical coverage during open enrollment. You won't take a health assessment this year. You will take one next open enrollment when you can take it on your medical carrier's website.
To take part in 2023:
- Enroll in a PEBB medical plan for 2023 between Oct. 1 and Oct. 31, 2022. Be sure to state you plan to take part in HEM.
- Complete two health actions during the plan year. You don't have to report them. You just need to let us know you did them at open enrollment next year.
New Hires:
To be eligible for HEM your benefits must be in effect by Oct. 1. If your benefits are effective Nov. 1 or later, you are not eligible for HEM for the upcoming plan year. You can take part in HEM next open enrollment.
- HEM is an open enrollment benefit only
- New employees not eligible for HEM do not receive the monthly incentive but are enrolled in the lower deductible plan.