Managing Your Benefits

Get Ready for the New Plan Year: 5 Smart Things to Do Before June 30

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Published May 23, 2025

With just five weeks left in the 2024-25 plan year, now is the perfect time to wrap up a few key health and wellness to-dos before your SchoolCare health and wellness benefits reset on July 1, 2025. Here are four smart steps to take before the current plan year ends:

1. Spend Your Remaining FSA Dollars

If you’re enrolled in a Flexible Spending Account (FSA), check your balance and make a plan to use your remaining funds. FSAs are “use-it-or-lose-it” accounts, although some employers offer a grace period or rollover option. If you're unsure of your deadline – contact your employer ASAP so you don’t lose money.

Eligible expenses go far beyond prescriptions and copays. You can also stock up on FSA-approved items like:

  • Sunscreen
  • First aid supplies
  • Cold and allergy meds
  • Glasses or contact lens solution

Visit the FSA Store for a full list of eligible products.

2. Use Your VSP Vision Hardware Allowance

If you have VSP supplemental vision coverage, don’t let your annual benefit go unused!

Take advantage of your:

  • Up to $150 allowance on glasses (or $200 on featured frame brands)
  • 20% savings on costs above your allowance
  • $150 annual allowance for contact lenses

Even if your prescription hasn’t changed, it’s a great time to update your frames or order an extra supply of contacts. See your full benefits here.

3. Earn Your Good For You! Well-Being Program Incentives

If you have not yet earned your $600 maximum in Good For You! Well-Being Program incentives, you still have time to earn some or all of what’s left. Here are a few ways how:

Self-Reported Healthy Events

Log up to four healthy activities per quarter—like exercise, meditation, volunteering, or watching a Cigna EAP Wellness Webcast. That’s $100 per quarter. It takes just a couple minutes. Log in to myCigna and enter the date you completed the activity and check the box certifying that you took this action to improve your physical, social, mental or financial well-being.

You can also earn $25 each for self-reporting your annual eye exam and dental cleaning (1x per year for each). Easy step-by-step instructions for self-reporting can be found here.

Preventive Care Incentives

You automatically earn rewards when Cigna processes your claims for things like:

  • Annual physicals ($50)
  • Biometric screenings ($100)
  • Certain cancer screenings ($50)
  • OB-GYN visits ($50)
  • Flu shots ($50)

If you have any of these appointments scheduled for June, they may not process before June 30, but don’t worry! You will still earn available cash for this year – it will just be paid out later in the summer.

 

Online Health Coaching

Complete online coaching programs – many in just four weeks* – for $50 each. Whether your goal is stress reduction, weight loss, or quitting smoking, these programs support your journey to a healthier you.

*Please note- with the pending changes to the Good For You! program, these will not carry over from one plan year to the next. Any online coaching program you begin now needs to be complete by the end of the month to earn your reward. There will be new online coaching programs available with the new wellness experience.

4. Review and Pay Outstanding Claims

While you don’t need to pay all outstanding medical claims before June 30, it can feel great to start the new plan year fresh. Log in to your myCigna account to:

  • View your Explanation of Benefits (EOBs)
  • Check for any unpaid bills
  • Make payments directly through the portal

Need help? Cigna’s customer service is available 24/7/365 at 800-244-6224.

5. Set a Reminder in Your Calendar for July 1 to Complete Your Health Assessment

With the arrival of an enhanced wellness experience for 2025-26 comes a new health assessment that will not be available until July 1. This is the annual assessment required for participation in the Good For You! Well-Being Program AND for subscribers on the Yellow Plan with Choice Fund to deposit your Choice Fund dollars. Please do not complete the Health Assessment in June as has been recommended in the past. The data will not transfer to 2025-26 and you will still need to complete the new assessment. Read more here.

 

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