The Corinthian Plan cares about your whole self. We developed the role of a Wellbeing Specialist to support your whole self. They are more than a health coach and value the unique life experiences (and stressors!) of pastors and church workers.

We believe that a personal and confidential conversation with a Wellbeing Specialist is so important that it is a covered, no-cost benefit to those enrolled or waiving The Corinthian Plan health coverage. Not only is it covered, but we offer you a $150 incentive. (see Wellness Incentives above for instructions)

How to Engage with a Wellbeing Specialist?

Read more about our two Wellbeing Specialists

• Anne Blackwood is an Anabaptist Christian spiritual director, originally trained as a physician. She seeks to support pastors and church workers reflect on: “How does my care for myself reflect my love of God, and enable the love/care that I provide for others?”
• Ruth Johnston is a spiritual director with experience in hospital chaplaincy and grief counseling. She has a deep love of conversations about all facets of life–strengths and passions, challenges and struggles, grief and wholeness.

Then email wellness@everence.com to schedule your conversation.

The Corinthian Plan offers comprehensive health coverage through Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield. We encourage you to take advantage of these resources!

Focus on Prevention:

• The plan offers preventive care at no cost to enrolled participants. Please read through this Schedule of Preventive Care for more details about the types and frequency of care and screenings available to you.
• Perhaps the most important of these benefits is your Annual Well Visit with your Primary Care Provider. So important that you can earn $150 just to maintain this important relationship (see Wellness Incentives above).

Mental Health:

• Through Highmark, you can schedule virtual and in-person visit with coaches to help you achieve your goals, and therapists to help you address your mental health.
• Deductible and co-insurance applies, but an unlimited number of sessions are available with in-network mental health providers for members with a mental health diagnosis.
• You also have access to Spring Health through the MyHighmark app or website. Spring Health offers expanded and timely access to mental and behavioral health care. Visits with coaches are at no cost; member cost sharing will apply to clinical therapy and medication management visits only.

Weight Management:

• Noom: a set of psychology-based diabetes prevention and weight management programs that can help you create and maintain sustainable, healthy habits. Check the Noom link on your Highmark member benefits site to confirm eligibility.
• Those with a BMI of 25 or higher have medical plan benefits covered at 100% to meet with an in-network registered dietitian nutritionist or your in-network health care provider to come up with a plan to help you maximize your health. (Contact wellness@everence.com to learn how to use your benefits and avoid unexpected charges for weight management services, since coverage and coding can be tricky sometimes.)
• GLP-1 medications. Please consult with the Express Scripts prescription plan for more information about who may be eligible for coverage of certain weight-loss medications.

Health Coaching / Highmark Blues on Call:

• Health coaches are specially trained to answer your questions, support you in making informed health decisions, and help you set wellness goals. For example, you can call a coach if:
  • You have diabetes and need information to change your diet.
  • Your cholesterol is a little high, but you don’t understand what the numbers mean.
  • Your bone density test shows you have osteopenia. How can you prevent it from turning into osteoporosis?
  • Your family has a history of heart disease. What can you do to protect yourself?
• Call a Blues on Call Health Coach at (888) BLUE-428

Explore More Resources through Highmark

Log in to your Highmark account and download the My Highmark app to explore the many valuable resources available to you, including these benefits:

Caring for Your Whole Self

Taking care of your body is an act of loving obedience to God. These are daily choices that shape your overall well-being. This includes:

• Nurturing your spiritual life
• Managing stress
• Making thoughtful nutrition choices
• Investing in healthy relationships
• Staying physically active

Having a Primary Care Provider

People are healthiest when they receive regular, preventive care. This proactive approach also helps steward limited and costly health resources wisely. A trusted provider:

• Understands your health history
• Helps guide long-term decisions
• Partners with you to create effective care strategies

Planning Ahead with Advance Directives

Clearly communicating your medical wishes:

• Supports your family during difficult times
• Reduces stress and uncertainty
• Ensures your care aligns with your values

Living Out Our Faith Through Health

Our lifestyle reflects God’s presence in our lives. With that in mind, we strive to:

• Live with gratitude for the bodies God has given us
• Seek healing and peace in areas where we are hurting
• Receive God’s grace and forgiveness when we need it
• Support one another through encouragement and care

We’re in This Together

Healthy communities grow from healthy individuals. Mennonite Church USA and your congregation see The Corinthian Plan as a way to care for those who care for us. When congregations and workplaces encourage wellness:

• Individuals thrive
• Communities grow stronger
• Health care costs are reduced

Choosing a healthy lifestyle allows each of us to more fully live out God’s mission in the world.

Health coverage is offered through Highmark, and uses a Blue Cross Blue Shield provider network, available nationwide and through virtual visits. Preventative services are covered at no-cost for enrolled members. Member ID cards are sent by Highmark to enrolled members, and virtual member IDs are available through the Highmark app or website.

To look up providers in the Highmark network, visit Member Resources | Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield and then Find a Doctor. A popup will ask you to Choose a Plan, and then to enter a 3 letter plan prefix. Enter CQM. Then you can search for providers.

Prescription coverage is offered through Express Scripts (ESI), with both mail-order and in-network retail pharmacy locations. ESI no longer issues physical ID cards. You can use the ESI mobile app to access your prescription drug card information.

Plan Options. In 2026, there are two deductible options, comparable to Gold and Silver plans available on the health insurance marketplace. See 2026 Plan Details page for more information besides this short description:

• $3,000 deductible if enrolled self-only, or $6,000 deductible if enrolled with family coverage. That means that if you are enrolled in a family plan, the entire $6,000 family deductible must be satisfied before claims reimbursement begins.
• $5,000 individual deductible / $10,000 family deductible. If you are enrolled in a family plan, once an individual’s deductible is satisfied, claim reimbursement for covered service will begin for that member. Once the family deductible is satisfied collectively by covered family members, claim reimbursement will begin for all covered family members.

Both deductible options require a co-insurance, up to an out-of-pocket limit. This means that after the deductible is met, the Plan will begin to pay 90% while the member pays 10% of the next $10,000 for single coverage and the next $20,000 for family coverage. In other words, members pay an additional $1,000 for single coverage and an additional $2,000 for family coverage before the Plan starts to pay 100% claim reimbursement for covered services.

Questions about your health and prescription coverage?

• See the 2026 Plan Details page for links to the Health Plan Summary of Benefits, Summary of Benefits and Coverage, and more.
• Contact Highmark directly at 800-226-2239.

Dental. Your employer may offer a self-funded dental plan administered by Everence. If so, all eligible employees and dependents are automatically enrolled in the dental plan unless you are enrolled in other dental coverage.

See the 2026 Plan Details page for a link to the Dental Plan coverage. With this self-funded plan, there is no specific network or directory of providers. You’ll pay your dentist and then submit your claim to Everence for reimbursement. You’ll note that preventative services are reimbursed at 100%, and for Basic Services the Plan reimburses 75% of reasonable and customary costs.

After two years of experience with the Dental Plan, additional orthodontia and major services are added. Before receiving non-emergency treatment that is likely to exceed $250, a treatment plan should be sent to Everence.

You’ll receive a member card by mail. Benefits, coverage, and claims questions are handled by Everence, at 574-533-9511 or 800-348-7468.

Vision. Your employer may offer one of two options for vision insurance, both through VSP, that you can choose to enroll in. See the 2026 Plan Details page for a description of coverage.

You do not need a member card to receive services. You’ll need to create an account on vsp.com to view your in-network coverage and find an in-network doctor and other savings for members. At your appointment, just tell them you have VSP.

For questions about VSP, visit vsp.com

Group Life and Long Term Disability insurance is mandatory coverage for participants enrolled in or waiving The Corinthian Plan health coverage. The life insurance amount is based on your annual earnings, up to a maximum of $100,000. Long term disability insurance is designed to replace 2/3 of annual earnings. See an overview of coverage on the 2026 Plan Details page.

Questions? Please contact Everence at denise.henke@everence.com

• Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
  • Your employer may have an HRA or HSA to help you help offset the cost of meeting the deductible.
  • HRAs and HSAs have different rules and benefits. This HRA and HSA Comparison Chart offers some details to help your employer decide what works best.
• Section 125, a flexible benefits (cafeteria) plan
  • A Section 125 plan allows you to use before-tax dollars for some health and/or dependent care expenses.
• Questions? Please contact Everence at denise.henke@everence.com

Continuation of Coverage. If you are enrolled in The Corinthian Plan and leave your position, you are eligible for Continuation of Coverage (similar to COBRA) for 18 months, or until becoming entitled to Medicare coverage. Premiums plus a 2% administration fee will be billed to the covered employee on a month-to-month basis. (See the Summary Plan Description for more information.) When you submit the Cancelation Form, we can start this process for you.

Porting Coverage. A benefit of The Corinthian Plan and its nationwide provider network through Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is that if you move to a new congregation, you can take your coverage with you, and you wouldn’t need to start over on a new deductible, as long as coverage continues until the new effective date. If there is a gap between employment, you should be on Continuation Coverage until starting with the new congregation.

If the new congregation isn’t already participating in The Corinthian Plan, they can join without delay. If the new congregation has other employees who would be eligible for The Corinthian Plan, they would need to enroll in or waive coverage when the new employee porting coverage begins.

• Susan Burkholder at SusanB@MennoniteUSA.org for information about the plan in general.
• Denise Henke at denise.henke@everence.com is your contact at Everence, the third-party administrator of the plan, for quotes, enrollment and specific eligibility requirements for the different benefit options.
• Ingrid Friesen Moser at ingrid.wellness@gmail.com for general questions about the Wellness program.
• Everence at wellness@everence.com to process your Wellness Incentives, schedule a Wellbeing Specialist conversation, and for tips for prevention-related medical claims.
• For specific questions about coverage and claims:
  • Health: contact Highmark directly per your member ID (800-226-2239)
  • Prescriptions: contact Express Scripts directly (800-818-9787)
  • Vision: Contact VSP directly (800-877-7195)
  • Dental: Contact Everence directly (800-348-7468)

Enrollment / Changes in Coverage

• Employee Enrollment Form. There are 2 versions depending on your location. Everence will send you the correct form after your congregation fills out its Congregational Selection Form.
• Once enrolled, visit my.everence.com for easy online access to your health plan documents. On your My Everence dashboard, select “Library” to see a list of your documents. If you have technical difficulties with My Everence, contact WebHelp@everence.com.
• Cancelation of Coverage Form. The employee uses this form if canceling a participating family member. This is also how you start the process of moving to Continuation of Coverage.
• See 2026 Plan Details for specific enrollment forms

Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield

• Preventive Schedule
• Tips for your Annual Wellness Visit

Wellness Incentives

• • Incentive Instructions
  • Annual Wellness Exam Incentive Form
  • Wellbeing Conversation Incentive Form (Wellbeing Specialist will send you form after your conversation)
  • Wellbeing Retreat Incentive Form