The Chicago Lives Healthy Wellness Program
The Chicago Lives Healthy Wellness Program can help improve health, manage health conditions and make choices that support total wellness. It has two parts: The Well On Target program offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois and the Health Improvement Programs (HIP) offered by Telligen.
Well OnTarget® (www.wellontarget.com)
Well onTarget can give you the support you need to make healthy choices — while rewarding you for your hard work. Member Wellness Portal
The Well onTarget Wellness Portal uses the latest technology to give you the tools you need for better health, available at wellontarget.com*. It links you to a suite of inviting programs and tools. Your wellness journey begins with a suggested list of activities based on the information you provided in the Health Assessment.**
- Health Assessment (HA): The HA presents a series of questions to learn more about you. After you take the HA, you will get a personal and confidential wellness report. The report offers you tips for living your healthiest life. Your answers will help tailor the Well onTarget portal with the programs that may help you reach your goals. If you choose, you can share this report with your health care provider.
- Self-Management Programs: These programs let you work at your own pace
to reach your health goals. Learn more about nutrition, fitness, losing weight, quitting smoking, managing stress and more.
Track your progress as you make your way through each lesson. Reach your milestones and earn Blue Points.**
| Easy to Learn | How to Access the Portal |
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Interactive and educational programs are developed in an easy-to-learn format. Content addresses topics that are preventive in nature and based on recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Obesity Education Initiative and Physical Activity Guidelines put forth by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A certificate of completion is available upon successful completion of any program. |
Use your Blue Access for MembersSM (BAMSM) account:
Service at 877.806.9380. |
Now you have a step-by-step plan to guide you on the way to living your best life.
The suite of programs and tools include:
- Digital Self-management Programs: Learn about nutrition, fitness, weight loss, quitting smoking, managing stress and more!
- Health and Wellness Library: The health library has useful articles, podcasts and videos on health topics that are important to you.
- Blue PointsSM Program:** Earn points for wellness activities. Redeem your points for a wide variety of merchandise in the online shopping mall.
- Tools and Trackers: These interactive resources help keep you on track while making wellness fun.
- Health Assessment: Answer some questions to learn more about your health and receive a personal wellness report.
- Fitness and Nutrition Tracking: Get Blue Points for tracking activity with popular devices and mobile apps.
- Personal Challenges: Join a personal challenge to help you reach your goals. There are over 30 challenges, so you can choose the best one to fit your wellness journey. Topics include stress, sleep, physical activity and more!
Digital Self-Management Programs
Some programs are interactive and you can create daily habits to track as part of the program. Midpoint and final assessments to check the effectiveness of the daily habits may help you progress toward your goals. Other programs are educational, with information about symptoms, causes, available treatment options and lifestyle changes. Each day you’ll find an additional resource such as a video, article, podcast or links to external communities and resources.
| Interactive Programs (Six weeks) | Educational Programs (Six lessons in each program) |
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| Managing Your Stress | Healthy Bones and Joints |
| Quitting Tobacco | Improving Your Cholesterol |
| Achieving Your Healthy Weight | Managing Your Metabolic Syndrome |
| Maintaining Your Healthy Weight | Preventive Health: Reducing Your Risks |
| Nutrition For Better Health | Preventing Diabetes |
| Enhancing Your Physical Activity | Living With Asthma |
| Improving Your Blood Pressure | Living With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary |
| Improving Your Oral Health | Disease (COPD) |
| Improving Your Sleep | Living With Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) |
| Living With Diabetes | Living With Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) |
| Staying Tobacco Free | Healthy Pregnancy (Five Programs) |
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Financially Fit |
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The mobile app is available for iPhone® and AndroidTM smartphones. It can help you regularly connect with your wellness program, work on goals and stay inspired — anytime and anywhere. Visit the app stores to download the app.
* Well onTarget is a voluntary wellness program available to all employees. Members can use their Blue Access for Members credentials to access the wellontarget.com site.
**Completion of the Health Assessment is not required for participation in the program.
***Blue Points Program Rules are subject to change without prior notice. See the Program Rules on the Well onTarget Member Wellness Portal for more information. Member agrees to comply with all applicable federal, state
and local laws, including making all disclosures and paying all taxes with respect to their receipt of any reward.
AlwaysOn is owned and operated by Onlife Health Inc. an independent company that has contracted with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois to provide digital health management for members with coverage through BCBSIL.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois makes no endorsement, representations or warranties regarding third-party vendors and the products and services offered by them.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, a Division of Health Care Service Corporation, a Mutual Legal Reserve Company, an Independent Licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
Health Improvement Programs (HIP)
Members are identified for HIP based on a variety of factors including biometric screening results (if available) and for Blue Choice Options (PPO) participants, pharmacy and medical claim data.
Notice is sent to those members who have been assigned to participate in a Health Improvement Program (HIP).The participation requirements will differ by program but will generally include an enrollment session and then telephonic coaching sessions during the quarter. Members will meet ongoing HIP participation criteria by engaging with the health professionals who provide coaching services through the programs. Participation in a HIP does not require the member meet any physical performance goals such as a reduction in blood pressure, weight or cholesterol readings.
This is a voluntary wellness program; participation is optional. However, if the HIP participation requirements are not met, there will be a $50 per non-participant per month increase in the employee’s required health plan contribution. For example, if both the covered spouse and the employee are assigned to a HIP program and elect to not participate, the employee will pay $100 more per month for health plan coverage.