Wellness Wednesday – Health Risk Assessment and NUFlex reminder

picture disc.Employees have until 5 p.m. on Friday to take the Health Risk Assessment (HRA), which entitles those with university health insurance to enhanced wellness benefits.

The 5 p.m. Friday deadline also applies to NUFlex reenrollment.












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To log into the Health Risk Assessment, UNMC employees need to use a special variation of their UNMC personnel ID number as their username.

  • If your personnel ID number is five digits long, your username will be “UNMC000-” followed by your number (i.e. if your number was 12345, your login would be UNMC00012345).
  • If your personnel ID number is six digits long, your username will be “UNMC00-” followed by your number. (i.e. if your number was 123456, your login would be UNMC00123456).

Your temporary password is “wellness,” which you will need to change once you’ve logged in.

Those who have trouble logging in should call 559-4340.




Those with university insurance who take the HRA will have access to:
  • A $300 Wellness and Preventative Services benefit — a $50 increase over the standard benefit;
  • A $600 Well-Child Care Benefit — a $100 increase over the standard benefit;
  • A free colonoscopy through a Blue Cross Blue Shield preferred provider every 10 years once they reach the age of 50; and
  • No co-pay for generic drugs accessed through mail service.

The HRA is voluntary and will be taken at Wellstream Online or in Firefly (See log on instructions on the right). The assessment will take about 15 minutes and needs to be completed in one sitting.

The HRA will help employees assess and monitor their own health care status and UNMC will use anonymous, aggregate data from the assessments to develop plans and programs to address health care trends found among the faculty and staff.

This year, NUFlex enrollment is only offered online through the Firefly Employee Self Service. No paper enrollment forms will be accepted for reenrollment.

If no changes are made online by 5 p.m. on Friday, employees will:

  • Keep their current benefits;
  • Not be enrolled in the Reimbursement Accounts in 2010; and
  • Be designated as a tobacco/nicotine user for life insurance premiums.

There is no exception to this policy.

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