The UFCW & Employers Benefit Trust and the Healthy Fundamentals Health Risk Questionnaire (HRQ) Initiative take your privacy very seriously. The information collected for the Healthy Fundamentals HRQ initiative is used solely for two purposes: (1) helping you to improve your health and (2) making sure that you receive all appropriate credits to your Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) due to you from the program.

The HRQ is fully compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which was enacted by Congress in 1996. HIPAA addresses the need for security and privacy of health data. For more information on HIPAA and how it affects you, please visit www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa. The HRQ complies with all HIPAA regulations concerning privacy and medical information. Thus, your HRQ results will be available to you. Neither the UFCW & Employers Benefit Trust, the union, nor your employer will have access to your personal health information. Information about your completion of the HRQ will be transmitted to the UFCW & Employers Benefit Trust only to calculate your HRA credits and to update your contact information such as telephone number and e-mail address. Of course, the company administering the HRQ, MedExpert International (MedExpert), will have access to the data, but only to comply with HRQ administration requirements and as necessary to provide you with appropriate credits and medical information. Your HRQ responses may also be shared with other third-party health care management service providers selected by the Trust to offer you voluntary programs and services to help you manage or improve your health.

All information used for the Healthy Fundamentals HRQ initiative is collected and processed by MedExpert, an independent third-party organization. The UFCW & Employers Benefit Trust will not use any individual identifying information for any purpose other than crediting your HRA account upon your completion of the HRQ and updating your contact information. The UFCW & Employers Benefit Trust reserves the right to track aggregate data in order to assess overall population trends (e.g., factors such as BMI) over time. Such aggregation means that data pertaining to any individual cannot be discerned or inferred and no individual can be identified by the data.