Wellness Incentive Program Rules & Guidelines

Earn up to or $200 cash or 50,000 Rewards Program points when you complete Wellness Incentive Program activities. The program encourages employees and their spouses/domestic partners to take charge of their lives and well-being by completing a variety of wellness activities that promote healthy eating, physical activity, personal coaching, and preventive care. We also support a work culture of wellness where employees feel, live, and work better. Staying or getting healthy helps keep insurance costs down for both you and your family as well as the County.

Pinellas County reserves the right to make changes to the incentive program, choice of rewards, and to make determinations as to qualifications for earning rewards.

• Medical Plan Enrollees: Permanent employees enrolled in Pinellas County’s medical plan are eligible for all incentives.
• Opt Outs: Permanent employees who opt out of medical coverage are eligible to earn rewards for preventive screenings, Social Health and Wellness Apps & Activities (discontinued on April 27, 2024), and flu shots, but not for the Cigna programs (Health Coaching, Omada, Chronic Condition Care Coordination, and Maternity Support).
• Spouses/Partners: Employee spouses and domestic partners enrolled in the County’s medical plan are eligible for all incentives.
• Temporary Employees: Not eligible.

• MyCigna Wellness tracks all incentive activity completions except opt out preventive screenings and Social Health and Wellness Apps & Activities (discontinued on April 27, 2024).
  • Opt outs attest to completion in MyCigna Wellness as a Self Reported Activity and may be randomly asked to provide verification upon request.
  • Social Health and Wellness Apps & Activities completions need to be entered manually in MyCigna Wellness as a Self Reported Activity and may be randomly asked to provide verification upon request.
• All incentive activities are rewarded semi-annually. It takes about 8 weeks to process reports after June 30 and December 31. The schedule shown below applies to cash in your paycheck or Rewards Program points. For more information, see rewards.

You can earn rewards toward the 2024 Wellness Incentive Program for activities completed between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024.

Yes. All employees default to cash each calendar year which is added to your payroll check, as earned, on a semi-annual basis.

If you prefer reward points (to redeem items on the Rewards Program website), you need to elect to receive rewards points every year. The deadline to elect points is June 30 for activities completed in the first half of the year and December 31 for activities completed in the second half of 2024 (view the Wellness Incentive Payout Schedule).

No; however, we recommend you visit in-network providers when possible as they cost less.

• Cash rewards will be deposited in your paycheck on a semi-annual basis according to the payout schedule.

• Visit the Pinellas County Rewards Program (for security purposes, this is a SharePoint link for employees only) to access the website where you can redeem your points from an online gift catalog.
• Your rewards account updates semi-annually with the points earned in the previous 6 months.

• View MyCigna Wellness to enroll in and track activity completions. Log in to www.mycigna.com, click on Wellness (right side in the top menu), and select Wellness & Incentives. Scroll down to select the View all incentives link. There are two tabs on the All Incentives page: Available Incentives and Completed Incentives.
• MyCigna Wellness tracks completions using point balances. For cash amounts, see charts above.

Rewards for spouses/domestic partners are added to the employee’s paycheck or their Rewards Program account if the employee elects points.

You have 90 days to redeem points in the Reward Program website; however, if you earned awards in cash, you must be an active employee at the time incentives are rewarded in your paycheck.

Yes. According to IRS guidelines, Wellness Incentive Program reward points or cash are taxable upon receipt.

• Cash: Cash incentives are taxable at 100% of the value which is auto-calculated and withheld from that paycheck.
• Points: The taxable cash value of reward points is 70%. For example, the taxable value of 12,500 points which equates to $50 cash is $35. This cash value is added to your gross pay for calculating taxes (withholding, Social Security, and Medicare) and then deducted from your net pay since it is not cash.

Per IRS guidelines, service reward points awarded for new hires, service anniversaries, or retirement are not taxable (login to SharePoint required).

Our business practices are in full compliance with the privacy requirements under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Human Resources, your supervisor and other management do not have access to your MyCigna Wellness account, medical claims information, biometric screening results, or answers to the online health assessment.

Since employees and covered spouses/partners have separate online myCigna.com accounts, each can see only their own activities.

• If you are on a County medical plan, with a few exceptions, Cigna automatically tracks completed activities in MyCigna Wellness. For example, preventive screenings such as a colonoscopy are updated once Cigna processes the claim. Please allow up to 90 days for processing. For the Apps and Activities self reported activities, you may be randomly selected to provide verification of completion (program discontinued on April 27, 2024).
• If you opt out of the County’s medical plan, please attest to completion in the Self Reported Activities section of your MyCigna Wellness dashboard. Please note, you may be randomly selected to provide verification of completion.