REMINDER: Sign Up for Castlight Online Tool by April 30 for Chance to Win Year of Premium-Free Health Care

The University of Cincinnati recently launched Castlight, a personalized healthcare tool that helps you compare doctors, medical services, and facilities by cost and quality. Castlight gives you the information you need to find the best healthcare for you and your family through your Anthem medical plan.

Castlight is available to UC employees, spouses/domestic partners and dependents age 18 and older enrolled in a UC Anthem medical plan.

Those who register for Castlight will be eligible to win a prize of “premium free” health care for 12 months.

In other words, the university will cover your share of your monthly or biweekly medical premium. (Your premium is the portion currently deducted from your UC paycheck to pay your share for your healthcare insurance.) That prize will be awarded following the

April 30 deadline

for eligibility for the prize.

According to Liz Aumann, director of benefits for Human Resources, “We’re offering the incentive because we want to encourage our busy employees to take a little time to give Castlight a try. It’s a voluntary service that’s there to help.”

To sign up,

simply log into

anthem.com

, and click “Know Your Costs.” Registration takes less than five minutes and can be done using any computer.  Any employee who needs assistance or has questions is welcome to stop by the Human Resources Department, University Hall, 3rd floor,  8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday thru Friday. 

Learn more about Castlight at

www.mycastlight.com/UC

. Or you can call Anthem Support at 1-844-249-5372.

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