New Employee Benefit: Step Up Your Health with Medicash
After the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, we all appreciate the importance of looking after ourselves, both mentally and physically, more than ever. We also know that feeling good and staying healthy in our daily lives makes a big difference to how likely we are to fall ill and how fast we recover afterwards. That’s why Step Up are delighted to announce our brand new employee health plan from Medicash.
What is Medicash?
Medicash is the oldest healthcare cash plan provider in the UK today and also one of the largest, covering over 550,000 policyholders across the UK, both at work and at home. Medicash has been helping people with their healthcare for over 150 years and plays an active and important role in the community through their charitable foundation. Over the last five years, The Medicash Foundation has donated over £2.4 million to support a wide range of health and wellbeing related charities and projects.
What is a healthcare cash plan?
Medicash offers health plans that cover our staff and their families by providing a range of positive healthcare benefits. Even better, they also take care of the money side of things with cash back to cover costs such as dental and optical bills, physiotherapy and even consultancy charges.
Here are some of the new benefits are staff can enjoy:
- Claim back the full amount of dental bills or new glasses, up to your annual limit
- Wide range of therapy treatments covered, including physiotherapy
- Access to payment for private specialist consultations
- Access to Virtual GP Consultations
- Access thousands of discounts via Medicash Extras
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Helpline & structured face to face counselling support
- SkinVision, Phio, Best Doctors & mProve YOURSELF included
- Option to include their partner via personal DDM
- Cover children for FREE up to their 24th birthday, if in full time education
Medicash App
Our Medicash plan also includes the My Medicash App, an easy to use app which allows staff to make a claim in seconds whilst on the go, simply by taking a picture of their receipt and answering a few quick questions.
The App makes managing health plans simple, allowing our staff to have full control of their plan, and access other benefits such as the mProve YOURSELF app which hosts a wide range of exercise and yoga videos, guided meditations and self-help guides. In addition to this staff are also able to access the SkinVision app which provides fast skin assessments.
That’s not all, Medicash also offers a number of other features, such as:
- A 24/7 helpline for medical advice
- A discount scheme for a wide range of health and wellbeing products and services
- A range of health information and resources on their website
We believe that the Medicash health plan is a great way to help our staff and their loved ones stay healthy and well. If you’re interested in finding out more about our staff benefits, click here.