Your Health Care Benefits
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The Board of Trustees of MCASF Local 725 Health & Welfare Trust Fund is pleased to welcome you to the Health Care website. Within this website, you have access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to commonly requested forms, useful highlighted links, and frequently asked questions regarding your benefit information.
About the Health Fund
The MCASF Local 725 Health & Welfare Trust Fund is a healthcare plan. The Plan most recently was amended and restated, effective July 1, 2021, and subsequently may be amended from time to time to make necessary and desirable changes.
The Plan is managed by a Board of Trustees comprised of both Local Union 725 and MCASF representatives. This site provides Participants with online access to complete information about your Healthcare Plan.
It's Almost That Time Again.....
Annual Family Statements
Each year, the Health Fund sends out it's Annual Family Statement, which ensures that the Fund has up-to-date information on you and your eligible dependents.
The Board of Trustees requires that ALL eligible participants complete the form annually.
If the form is not submitted, your health coverage will be suspended and there will be a delay in the payment of any benefit claims.
Watch for your form in the mail in October!
Changes To The Health Plan ~ Effective May 1st
Medical Benefits
Your medical benefit network is provided by Florida Blue, to locate a participating primary care physician in the Blue Options network, please call 1-800-664-5295 or visit their website at www.floridablue.com
Monthly Newsletter
Suicide Prevention and Postvention:
September is Suicide Prevention Month. This is a time to raise awareness, de-stigmatize suicidality and support and remember those who have been affected by it. The CDC reports that 49,476 Americans died by suicide in 2022, the highest ever recorded.
Monthly Video
Suicide Prevention and Postvention:
Raise awareness with key steps: Know warning signs; Ask directly; Offer support!
Life Advisor Well-Being Webinar
Your Prescriptions Are Now Being Handled By
Sav-Rx
Effective May 1st, Sav Rx became the Health Fund's prescription benefit manager. You should provide your pharmacy with the Sav Rx ID card you received in the mail. This is a prescription insurance card, not a discount card.
Watch this area for more helpful information regarding drug coverage through the Health Fund.
Loss of Time
Benefit
Did you know that if you become totally disabled due to non-occupational bodily injury or sickness while eligible for benefits, the Health Fund will pay you a Loss of Time (Short-Term Disability) benefit.
Benefits will begin as of the first day of disability due to an accident or as of the 8th day of disability due to sickness and will continue for any one period of disability for a maximum of twenty-six (26) weeks. You do not have to be confined to your home to collect benefits, but must be under the care of a physician.
For a Loss of Time benefit , you will receive a benefit based on your job classification.
General Foreman, Foreman. R5, R1 & MESJ ~ $500.00 per week
R2 & Apprentice 5th Year ~ $ 360.00 per week
R3, R4, MES2, MES3, Apprentice 2nd year, 3rd year, 4th Year and MAT ~ $250.00 per week
Read more about the Loss of Time Benefit here
Applications are available on the Document tab
Feeling sluggish or down lately?
it may be your body's way of telling you to eat more nutrient-rich foods. Good nutrition, along with keeping physically active, sleeping well, and managing your stress, is important to healthy aging and reinforces your body's first line of defense against stress and illness. TODAY is the perfect time to develop better eating habits. We've provided two documents below to help you get started.
Sav-Rx Mail Order Pharmacy
Benefits
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Cost-effective option for long-term maintenance & specialty medications
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All orders shipped directly to your door for no additional charge
How It Works
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Send in prescription
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Pay at time of order
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Orders shipped to you
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Convenient refills by phone, the Sav-Rx website, or the Sav-Rx App
How to Send in Prescriptions (3 Options)
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Ask your doctor to send the prescription electronically to Sav-Rx in Fremont, NE
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Ask you doctor to fax Sav-Rx the prescription at 402-753-2890
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Call Sav-Rx with your prescription drug name and your physician's contact information and Sav-Rx will do the rest!
Florida Blue
Locations in South Florida
Accesible via Mobile Devices
You can also use our Text-to-Mobile feature by creating a new text message* on your smartphone. Type 258311 in the "TO" or "Recipients" field, then type BLUE 1024 in the "Message" field and press send. (make sure you leave a space between the word BLUE and the number)
You will then receive a text message reply with a link you can click on to open your digital education kit.
*Standard text messaging rates apply based on your plan and your carrier.
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Florida Blue is an Independent Licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
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Helpful Healthcare Links
Your Link to Florida Blue
Your link to Florida Blue Dental
Your Link to Sav-Rx Prescription Services
Your Link to Medicare
Your link to the Center for Disease Control
Your link to the Florida Department of Health
Your link to the Department of Health & Human Services
Your link to Ulliance Life Advisor Member Assistance
Your link to the National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
For More Information
We are here to help!
Should you have any questions regarding your health benefits or eligibility, give us a call at (754) 777-7735
Your health matters.
Don't miss this important screening reminder.
Getting your Pap smear may help save your life.
You may be due for an important routine screening. Completing your routine Pap smear at least every 3 years (or HPV test every 3 years) is one of the best things you can do to help prevent cervical cancer.
Also, regular screenings allow you to detect abnormalities early and reduce your chances of developing cervical cancer.
Call your primary care doctor or OB-GYN today to schedule your Pap smear or HPV test.
Find answers about cervical cancer and screening options, visit www.floridablue.com/answers/managing-your-health/cervical-cancer-screening.
Where should I go when I need care?
COBRA PAYMENTS
ARE YOU CURRENTLY ON COBRA
CONTINUING COVERAGE?
You can now make your monthly premium payment online with your PayPal account
MCASF Local 725 Health Fund
NOW ACCEPTS COBRA &
SELF-PAYMENTS THRU PayPal
Remit your monthly premium payment by clicking
the button below.
Transparency in Coverage
Your Health Fund's compliance with the CCA and The No Surprises Act and Transparency in Coverage.
The Transparency in Coverage final rules require non-grandfathered group health plans such as our to disclose on a public website information regarding:
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In-network negotiated rates for covered items and services
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Out-of-Network allowed amount and billed charges for covered items and services
As of July 1, 2022, these machine-readable files (MRFs) must be made "publicly available and accessible to any person free of charge and without conditions, such as establishment of a user account, password or other credentials or PII to access the file" and must be updated on a monthly basis.
(These files are extremely large and download for an individual will be impacted by your hardware, browser and internet speed)
You can access these read-able files & documents by clicking below:
