Use your Wellness Allowance to Stay Healthy and Save!

Use your Wellness Allowance to Stay Healthy and Save

Your Wellness Allowance helps you lead a healthy lifestyle—and it pays you back! You can use your benefit toward:

 

Fitness programs

  • Membership in a qualified health or fitness club
  • Fitness classes such as yoga, Pilates, tai chi, and aerobics
  • Matter of Balance program
  • The Arthritis Foundation exercise program
  • Online instructional fitness classes or membership fees for online fitness subscriptions (such as Peloton)
  • Pool-based classes and pool facilities.  

 

Home workout equipment and programs

  • Resistance bands
  • Weights
  • Stationary bikes
  • Treadmills
  • Fitness machines
  • Home exercise or fitness program subscriptions
  • Heart rate monitors and fitness tracking devices, such as an Apple Watch (limit: one per year)
     

Nutritional programs

  • Nutritional counseling sessions
  • Healthy Eating for Successful Living program

 

Acupuncture

  • Visits to a licensed acupuncturist
     

Massage therapy

  • Swedish, deep tissue, sports, and chair
     

Wellness programs

 

Alternative therapies

  • Bodywork, holistic medicine practitioner visits, and/or mind-body therapies
  • Equipment for bodywork and mind-body therapies at home
  • Guided video or audio recordings
  • Self-massaging devices like foam rollers/sticks or TheraCane®
  • Biofeedback machines for home use, like RESPeRATE®
  • Portable infrared saunas
     

How to get your reimbursement

The Wellness Allowance Reimbursement Form, found at thpmp.org/forms, has all the instructions you need for getting your reimbursement. You can submit several forms during the year that total the amount, or you can send in one form for up to the amount. 

  • 2026 Benefit Information:
    • $150 per calendar year ($300 for Smart Saver Rx and $100 for PPO RX plans)1
  • 2025 Benefit Information:
    • $150 per calendar year ($300 for Saver Rx, $175 for Smart Saver Rx, and $185 for Access (PPO) Plans)2

Note: You have until March 31 to submit reimbursement requests for covered purchases made. 

 

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1$150 ($300 for Smart Saver and $100 for PPO RX plan) is the total reimbursement amount each year (Jan. 1–Dec. 31) for covered programs and activities including acupuncture visits not covered by Medicare, health education programs, nutritional counseling, fitness benefits (including one fitness tracker or heart rate monitor), physical fitness programs, wellness programs, alternative therapies, and massage therapy. Please see your Evidence of Coverage (EOC) for more details.

2$150 ($175 for Smart Saver, $300 for Saver Rx, and $185 for Access PPO plans) is the total reimbursement amount each year (Jan. 1–Dec. 31) whether used for nutritional counseling, wellness programs, alternative therapies, massage therapy, fitness tracking devices and heart rate monitors, and additional types of fitness and health clubs, and classes.

 

This information is not a complete description of benefits. Call Member Services at 1-800 -701-9000 (HMO)/ 1-866-623-0172 (PPO) (TTY: 711) for more information.