2. An At-Home Screening Kit allows you to self-administer a biometric wellness screening in the comfort of your own home. Log in to the Quest platform, in the Wellness Screening section, under Self-Collection, select Order Materials. The materials are mailed to your home, shipped within 3-5 business days, and include everything you need to perform the screening yourself. You will be given an instructional brochure on how to collect a dried blood sample using the lancet finger stick device provided. When complete, you will mail the screening sample back to Quest Diagnostics in a self-addressed, prepaid envelope. Quest Diagnostics processes the sample and will send email notifications to alert you when your results are ready to be viewed online. Your printed report will arrive in the mail 2-3 weeks after Quest processes your self-collection materials.

3. You may also satisfy this requirement by submitting relevant lab work from your own physician if that’s what you prefer. (Certain restrictions apply to this option and you may also incur out-of-pocket costs that you are responsible for.) If a member prefers to obtain lab results from their own physician, they should request their physician to collect labs for Glucose using the Hemoglobin A1C method, triglycerides, HDL Cholesterol, LDL Cholesterol, and blood pressure, and have their physician document these lab results on the “Physician Results Form”, available in the Quest online portal. You will select the Physician Results Form option as part of the screening scheduling process. A Physician Results Form, pre-populated with all your demographic information, will be made available for you to print. The member and their physician must complete and sign the “Physician Results Form”, and then you may fax the completed form to the fax number indicated on the form or you may submit your completed form to Quest electronically using the Upload Form button on the dashboard.

These screenings provide vital information about your overall health, including cholesterol (total, LDL, and HDL), triglycerides, cardiac risk, glucose (Hemoglobin A1C), blood pressure, height, weight, Body Mass Index (BMI), and waist measurement.  Biometric screenings must be scheduled online through the Quest portal and fasting for 8 hours is required.

Once you complete your screening, you’ll see your results for each biometric measure in your Quest portal and whether you met your health metric goal.  If you met your health metric goal, you’ll see a green checkmark for that metric. 

If your screening results for 3 or more of the metrics meet the health metric standards or goals (according to the chart below, and noted in the portal with a green checkmark), you’ll earn the wellness credit/discount. 

Health Assessment Outcomes

• Triglycerides: Less than 150 mg/dLLDL

• LDL Cholesterol: Less than 130 mg/dL

• HDL Cholesterol: 

  • Male: Greater than or equal to 40mg/dL     

  • Female: Greater than or equal to 50mg/dL

• Blood Pressure:

  • Systolic: Less than 130 mmHg

  • Diastolic: Less than 85 mmHg

• Glucose (Hemoglobin A1c) (w/ Fasting): Between 4.0% – 5.6% of total Hgb

If your screening results do not earn you at least 3 green checkmarks because some of them are “out of range”, these are opportunities to engage with a healthcare practitioner to earn the green checkmark(s)… You have two options to complete this follow up step and earn the green checkmark(s)

Option 1: If you prefer to visit your own primary care physician to earn the 5 green checkmark(s), you’ll utilize the Quest “Physician Engagement Form”.  (Please note: Approvals of the form may take up to 10 business days, and wellness credits will not be awarded until 3 or more green checkmarks are obtained and that information is transmitted to LSS.)

Option 2: If you prefer to consult with a Quest Virtual Care healthcare professional to earn the green checkmark(s), you can use Quest Virtual Care for a free virtual, one-on-one health consultation with a Nurse Practitioner. This is a convenient way to earn the wellness discount. After completing a biometric screening with Quest Diagnostics, you will receive an email to register for a Quest Virtual Care on-demand primary care visit. During a convenient time of your choice, an email and text message will be sent with a link to Quest’s Virtual Care secure online system. The secure system will open in your browser, prompting you to answer a few questions about your medical history. After answering the questions, a healthcare professional will appear on the device, and you will spend the next 10 minutes discussing test results and creating a Personal Action Plan.  If you do not want to wait for an email, once you receive the notification that your Quest results are available, you can download the Quest Virtual Care app and start the on-demand virtual visit process.

Participating in the LSS wellness screening process is valuable.  Not only does it mean you’re on the road to improved health, it means you’re saving a lot of money on your employee premiums.  When you first become benefits eligible at LSS and enroll in a medical plan, your payroll premiums will automatically include the full wellness credit discount for both you (and your spouse, if applicable).  However, based upon the date when your medical coverage begin date, you will need to complete your Biometric Screening, and any necessary follow-up steps, within 6 months in order to ensure these same wellness credits continue beyond that 6-month point without any interruption.  If you don’t complete the required actions to continue your wellness credit by the 6-month deadline, don’t worry – it’s not too late.  Once you eventually complete the required actions after that date, and LSS receives confirmation from Quest that you have, you can begin to earn wellness discounts for the remainder of that time frame going forward.

So why does LSS provide these wellness credits? To reward our employees and covered spouses for managing their health.  When you proactively manage your health, not only does it help you live your life to the fullest, it also helps contain healthcare costs for all of us on the LSS medical plans.  And all of us hear all the time on the news how costly healthcare costs in the United States continue to increase year after year.  All of us managing our health is a win/win for everyone – better personal health AND better healthcare costs for our LSS team members and their families.

Please contact your Human Resources representative if you have any questions.