Set your sights on eye health
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Use this toolkit to help your employees care for their eyes
* World Economic Forum: Why we should be doing more to protect eye health at work (October 10, 2023): weforum.org.
About 13 million people suffer from eye health conditions because of their jobs.* Putting the focus on eye health can help prevent serious eye conditions before they start. Talk to your employees on how their eyes can tell a lot about their overall health. Let them know that regular eye tests can help protect their eyes, treat or control long-term issues, and keep their eyes healthy.
Topic 3 Chronic disease
Topic 2 Preventive care
Topic 1 Vision insurance
Toolkit resources
*Vision Center: How Do Chronic Conditions Affect Eye Health? (May 14, 2024): visioncenter.org.
This toolkit was created to help you communicate with your employees about the details of their vision plan, the importance of preventive eye care, and how the eyes connect to their whole health. We have provided digital and printable assets for each of the topics, or units, below to help you encourage your employees to make the most of their vision benefits and focus on preventive eye health, including regular checkups. These units can be used in any order but allowing 1 to 2 weeks between promoting each one will give employees time to put the information and tips into practice.
Empower your employees to use their vision benefits
Topic 1 — Understanding vision insurance and its value
This unit focuses on helping employees understand their vision benefits, including what services and materials are covered and how. This can help ease employees’ concerns and give them confidence and peace of mind when seeking eye care.
Topic 2 — The importance of preventive eye care
Chronic health conditions can increase people’s risk for certain eye conditions that may affect vision, including glaucoma.* This unit emphasizes the importance of addressing vision conditions early and offers tips on how employees can protect their eyes.
Topic 3 — Eye health and chronic conditions
Prevention is the first step to healthier eyes. This unit covers how routine eye care can spot, track, and manage eye diseases and other health conditions, such as diabetes or heart disease. Regular eye exams are important and can help keep your employees healthy.
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These flyers help your employees understand how to use their vision benefits and what they cover. You can attach the flyers to an email, post them in the workplace, or upload them to your intranet. Choose the links below to download.
Vision network
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Understanding eyewear
Flyers
Mac download
This email goes over the basics of vision benefits and touches on the coverage your employees can expect when they need care. Employees are encouraged to visit a custom webpage to learn more about how their plan works and how to take care of their eye health.
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This all-in-one resource includes tips for eye care visits as well as information on how vision coverage works, preventive eye care, types of eye exams, and how eye health is connected to chronic health conditions. Include a link to this webpage on your intranet or in a newsletter.
Vision health webpage
Vision overview: Download Understanding eyewear: Download Vision network providers: Download
Post this video to your intranet to reinforce the importance of preventive eye health and the benefits of Anthem vision coverage to your employees. Copy the link below to share. https://bcove.video/3K87nlp
1. Understand dental insurance and its value
2. The importance of preventive dental care
3. Preventing cavities
4. Gum disease and chronic conditions
Vision overview
PC download
Use these flyers to emphasize the importance of preventive vision care. Employees can learn what to expect from annual eye exams and how to protect their eyesight. Attach the flyers to an email, post them in the workplace, or upload them to your intranet.
Preventive vision care
This email reviews the importance of preventive eye care visits for adults and children. Employees are invited to visit a custom webpage to learn about preventive eye care visits.
Post this video to your intranet to reinforce the importance of preventive dental health and the benefits of Anthem dental coverage to your employees. Copy the link below to share: https://bcove.video/3nXB1yR
Preventive vision care: Download Women and children's eye care: Download Dry eyes: Download
Women and children's
Dry eyes
This email encourages employees to take care of their eye health and get regular checkups to help prevent or manage common eye conditions and other chronic health conditions, such as diabetes and hypertension.
These flyers detail how diabetes and other conditions can have a serious impact on eye health and outline what your employees can do to prevent complications.
Diabetes vision education:: Download Women and children's vision: Download
Diabetes vision
Women and children
With this toolkit, you can lead your employees in the direction of better vision and overall health. Remember, the order and timing of each unit is not as important as getting the information out there. Choose where you want to begin and use the resources provided to help you along the way. You can also encourage employees who are Anthem members to download the Sydney℠ Health app or visit anthem.com for more details on their vision benefits and tips for good eye health.
Seeing is believing: Guide your employees to better health
Sydney Health is offered through an arrangement with Carelon Digital Platforms, a separate company offering mobile application services on behalf of your health plan. Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is the trade name of: In Colorado: Rocky Mountain Hospital and Medical Service, Inc. HMO products underwritten by HMO Colorado, Inc. In Connecticut: Anthem Health Plans, Inc. In Indiana: Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc. In Georgia: Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia, Inc. and Community Care Health Plan of Georgia, Inc. In Kentucky: Anthem Health Plans of Kentucky, Inc. In Maine: Anthem Health Plans of Maine, Inc. In Missouri (excluding 30 counties in the Kansas City area): RightCHOICE® Managed Care, Inc. (RIT), Healthy Alliance® Life Insurance Company (HALIC), and HMO Missouri, Inc. RIT and certain affiliates administer non-HMO benefits underwritten by HALIC and HMO benefits underwritten by HMO Missouri, Inc. RIT and certain affiliates only provide administrative services for self-funded plans and do not underwrite benefits. In Nevada: Rocky Mountain Hospital and Medical Service, Inc. HMO products underwritten by HMO Colorado, Inc., dba HMO Nevada. In New Hampshire: Anthem Health Plans of New Hampshire, Inc. HMO plans are administered by Anthem Health Plans of New Hampshire, Inc. and underwritten by Matthew Thornton Health Plan, Inc. In 17 southeastern counties of New York: Anthem HealthChoice Assurance, Inc., and Anthem HealthChoice HMO, Inc. In these same counties Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield HP is the trade name of Anthem HP, LLC. In Ohio: Community Insurance Company. In Virginia: Anthem Health Plans of Virginia, Inc. trades as Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and its affiliate HealthKeepers, Inc. trades as Anthem HealthKeepers providing HMO coverage, and their service area is all of Virginia except for the City of Fairfax, the Town of Vienna, and the area east of State Route 123. In Wisconsin: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wisconsin (BCBSWI) underwrites or administers PPO and indemnity policies and underwrites the out-of-network benefits in POS policies offered by Compcare Health Services Insurance Corporation. Compcare underwrites or administers HMO or POS policies. Independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Anthem is a registered trademark of Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc. 1067147MUMENABS 03/24
