Legal notices

Summaries of benefits and coverage (SBCs)

Your Subtitle Goes Here
3

Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act notice (WHCRA)

Your Subtitle Goes Here
3

The Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act requires that group medical plans provide the following services to any person receiving plan benefits in connection with a mastectomy:

  • Reconstruction of the breast on which the mastectomy has been performed;
  • Surgery and reconstruction of the other breast to produce a symmetrical appearance; and
  • Prostheses and treatment of physical complications at all stages of the mastectomy, including lymphedema (swelling associated with the removal of lymph nodes).

If you receive benefits from the medical plan for a mastectomy, and you then elect to have reconstructive surgery, the medical plan must provide coverage in a manner determined in consultation with the attending physician and patient. The plan’s benefits for breast reconstruction and related services will be the same as the benefits that apply to other services covered by your plan.

Questions?

If you have any questions about your rights under the WHCRA, visit Cigna’s website for more information.

Newborns’ and Mothers’ Health Protection Act of 1996

Your Subtitle Goes Here
3

Group health plans and health insurance issuers generally may not, under federal law, restrict benefits for any hospital length of stay in connection with childbirth for the mother or newborn child to less than 48 hours following a vaginal delivery or to less than 96 hours following a cesarean section. However, federal law generally does not prohibit the mother’s or newborn’s attending provider, after consulting with the mother, from discharging the mother and her newborn earlier than 48 hours (or 96 hours as applicable). In any case, plans and issuers may not, under federal law, require that a provider obtain authorization from the plan or issuer for prescribing a length of stay that does not exceed 48 hours (or 96 hours).

Notice of Rights and Protections Against Surprise Medical Bills

Your Subtitle Goes Here
3

Initial Notice of COBRA Continuation Coverage Rights

Your Subtitle Goes Here
3

Notice of enrollment rights

Your Subtitle Goes Here
3

If you are declining enrollment for yourself or your dependents (including your spouse) because of other health insurance or group health plan coverage, you may be able to enroll yourself or your dependents in this plan if you or your dependents lose eligibility for that other coverage (or if the employer stops contributing towards your or your dependents’ other coverage). However, you must request enrollment within 30 calendar days after your or your dependents’ other coverage ends (or after the employer stops contributing toward the other coverage).

In addition, if you have a new dependent as result of marriage, birth, adoption, or placement for adoption, you may be able to enroll yourself and your dependents. However, you must request enrollment within 30 calendar days after the marriage, birth, adoption, or placement for adoption.

Special enrollment rights also may exist in the following circumstances:

  • If you or your dependents experience a loss of eligibility for Medicaid or a state Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage and you request enrollment within 60 calendar days after that coverage ends; or
  • If you or your dependents become eligible for a state premium assistance subsidy through Medicaid or a state CHIP with respect to coverage under this plan and you request enrollment within 60 days after the determination of eligibility for such assistance.

Note: The 60 calendar day period for requesting enrollment applies only in these last two listed circumstances relating to Medicaid and state CHIP. As described above, a 30 calendar day period applies to most special enrollments.

To request special enrollment or obtain more information, contact the Benefits Administration Center at 1-844-319-3412, available Monday–Friday from 8 am–8 pm Eastern Time.

HIPAA privacy notice

Your Subtitle Goes Here
3
This notice applies to employees, former employees, and dependents who participate in the Lenovo Health and Welfare Benefits Plan (the “Plan”).

The Plan complies with the privacy rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), which provides safeguards on your protected health information maintained by the Plan. These rules are described in the Notice of Privacy Practices that was previously sent to you. Review the notice now.

Important notice from Lenovo about your prescription drug coverage and Medicare

Your Subtitle Goes Here
3

Please read this notice carefully and keep it where you can find it. This notice has information about your current prescription drug coverage with Lenovo and about your options under Medicare’s prescription drug coverage. This information can help you decide whether or not you want to join a Medicare drug plan. If you are considering joining, you should compare your current coverage, including which drugs are covered at what cost, with the coverage and costs of the plans offering Medicare prescription drug coverage in your area. Information about where you can get help to make decisions about your prescription drug coverage is at the end of this notice.

There are two important things you need to know about your current coverage and Medicare’s prescription drug coverage:

  1. Medicare prescription drug coverage became available in 2006 to everyone with Medicare. You can get this coverage if you join a Medicare Prescription Drug Plan or join a Medicare Advantage Plan (like an HMO or PPO) that offers prescription drug coverage. All Medicare drug plans provide at least a standard level of coverage set by Medicare. Some plans may also offer more coverage for a higher monthly premium.
  2. Lenovo has determined that the prescription drug coverage offered by the Lenovo Health Plans (i.e., Lenovo Health Saver Plan with HSA, Lenovo PPO, and Lenovo EPO) is, on average for all plan participants, expected to pay out as much as standard Medicare prescription drug coverage pays and is therefore considered Creditable Coverage. Because your existing coverage is Creditable Coverage, you can keep this coverage and not pay a higher premium (a penalty) if you later decide to join a Medicare drug plan.

When can you join a Medicare drug plan?

You can join a Medicare drug plan when you first become eligible for Medicare and each year from October 15 through December 7.

However, if you lose your current creditable prescription drug coverage, through no fault of your own, you will also be eligible for a two (2) month Special Enrollment Period (SEP) to join a Medicare drug plan.

What happens to your current coverage if you decide to join a Medicare drug plan?

If you decide to join a Medicare drug plan, your current Lenovo-sponsored prescription drug coverage will continue, but it will be secondary. Your Medicare prescription drug plan will be primary and pay benefits first. Keep in mind that you will also be required to pay an additional monthly premium for Medicare prescription drug coverage.

If you do decide to join a Medicare drug plan and drop your current prescription drug coverage through the Lenovo benefit program, be aware that you and your dependents may be able to get this coverage back.

When will you pay a higher premium (penalty) to join a Medicare drug plan?

You should also know that if you drop or lose your current coverage with Lenovo and don’t join a Medicare drug plan within 63 continuous days after your current coverage ends, you may pay a higher premium (a penalty) to join a Medicare drug plan later.

If you go 63 continuous days or longer without creditable prescription drug coverage, your monthly premium may go up by at least 1% of the Medicare base beneficiary premium per month for every month that you did not have that coverage. For example, if you go 19 months without creditable coverage, your premium may consistently be at least 19% higher than the Medicare base beneficiary premium. You may have to pay this higher premium (a penalty) as long as you have Medicare prescription drug coverage. In addition, you may have to wait until the following October to join.

For more information about this notice or your current prescription drug coverage …

If you have any questions about this notice, please call the Benefits Administration Center at 1-844-319-3412. Customer service representatives are available Monday–Friday from 8 am–8 pm Eastern Time.

Note: You’ll get this notice each year. You will also get it before the next period you can join a Medicare drug plan, and if this coverage through Lenovo changes. You also may request a copy of this notice at any time.

For more information about your options under Medicare prescription drug coverage …

More detailed information about Medicare plans that offer prescription drug coverage is in the “Medicare & You” handbook. You’ll get a copy of the handbook in the mail every year from Medicare. You may also be contacted directly by Medicare drug plans.

For more information about Medicare prescription drug coverage:

  • Visit medicare.gov.
  • Call your State Health Insurance Assistance Program (see the inside back cover of your copy of the “Medicare & You” handbook for their telephone number) for personalized help.
  • Call 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227). TTY users should call 1-877-486-2048.

If you have limited income and resources, extra help paying for Medicare prescription drug coverage is available. For information about this extra help, visit Social Security on the Web at socialsecurity.gov, or call them at 1-800-772-1213 (TTY: 1-800-325-0778).

Remember: Keep this Creditable Coverage notice. If you decide to join one of the Medicare drug plans, you may be required to provide a copy of this notice when you join to show whether or not you have maintained creditable coverage and, therefore, whether or not you are required to pay a higher premium (a penalty).

Date: 09/2016
Name of Entity/Sender: Lenovo (United States) Inc.
Address: 8001 Development Drive, Morrisville, NC 27560
Phone Number: 1-888-502-2488

CHIP notice

Your Subtitle Goes Here
3

Notice regarding wellness program

Your Subtitle Goes Here
3

The wellness program is a voluntary wellness program available to all plan participants. The program is administered according to federal rules permitting employer-sponsored wellness programs that seek to improve employee health or prevent disease, including the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, as applicable, among others. If you choose to participate in the wellness program you will be asked to complete a voluntary health risk assessment or “HRA” that asks a series of questions about your health-related activities and behaviors and whether you have or had certain medical conditions (e.g., cancer, diabetes, or heart disease). You are not required to complete the HRA or to participate in the blood test or other medical examinations.

Additional incentives may be available for employees who participate in certain health-related activities. If you are unable to participate in any of the health-related activities or achieve any of the health outcomes required to earn an incentive, you may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation or an alternative standard. You may request a reasonable accommodation or an alternative standard by contacting the Benefits Administration Center.

The information from your HRA will be used to provide you with information to help you understand your current health and potential risks, and may also be used to offer you services through the wellness program. You also are encouraged to share your results or concerns with your own doctor.

Protections from disclosure of medical information

We are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your personally identifiable health information. Although the wellness program and Lenovo may use aggregate information it collects to design a program based on identified health risks in the workplace, the wellness program will never disclose any of your personal information either publicly or to the employer, except as necessary to respond to a request from you for a reasonable accommodation needed to participate in the wellness program, or as expressly permitted by law. Medical information that personally identifies you that is provided in connection with the wellness program will not be provided to your supervisors or managers and may never be used to make decisions regarding your employment.

Your health information will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or otherwise disclosed except to the extent permitted by law to carry out specific activities related to the wellness program, and you will not be asked or required to waive the confidentiality of your health information as a condition of participating in the wellness program or receiving an incentive. Anyone who receives your information for purposes of providing you services as part of the wellness program will abide by the same confidentiality requirements. The only individual(s) who will receive your personally identifiable health information is the wellness vendor in order to provide you with services under the wellness program.

In addition, all medical information obtained through the wellness program will be maintained separate from your personnel records, information stored electronically will be encrypted, and no information you provide as part of the wellness program will be used in making any employment decision. Appropriate precautions will be taken to avoid any data breach, and in the event a data breach occurs involving information you provide in connection with the wellness program, we will notify you immediately.

You may not be discriminated against in employment because of the medical information you provide as part of participating in the wellness program, nor may you be subjected to retaliation if you choose not to participate.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this notice, or about protections against discrimination and retaliation, please contact the Benefits Administration Center.

Transparency in coverage from Cigna

Your Subtitle Goes Here
3
The link below leads to the machine readable files that are made available in response to the federal Transparency in Coverage Rule and includes negotiated service rates and out-of-network allowed- amounts between health plans and healthcare providers. The machine-readable files are formatted to allow researchers, regulators, and application developers to more easily access and analyze data.

2022

Transparency in coverage from Cigna

Gender-affirming medical care

Your Subtitle Goes Here
3