Pelago
Pelago is Corning’s substance use partner that provides personalized and confidential support to help people reduce or quit using alcohol, tobacco/nicotine, cannabis, and opioids. Pelago also supports family members who are concerned about a loved one’s substance use. All services are provided at no cost.
Why choose Pelago?
- Convenient and personalized care: Progress at your own pace with a virtual program and easy-to-use mobile app.
- Your privacy matters: Pelago takes confidentiality seriously. Although Corning pays for the program, your information remains completely private. Only you and your dedicated Pelago care team will be aware you’ve joined.
- Tailored to you: Whether you want to cut back or quit, Pelago meets you where you are and supports you in creating sustainable change. Your goals, your pace.
- Family support: Pelago for Families helps you better understand and respond to a loved one’s substance use, including private sessions with a licensed counselor and self-guided tools.
- Wallet-friendly wellness: Get top-notch care that helps you succeed and saves you money by reducing substances spending. The program is offered at no cost to you through your Corning benefits.
- It works: Within 30 days of starting Pelago, 80% of members reduced their substance-use frequency by at least 30%.
Eligibility:
All full-time U.S. employees, pre-65 retirees and their dependents (ages 15 and older for the alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis programs and 16 and older for the opioid program) enrolled in a Corning medical plan are eligible for the Pelago program.
Don’t forget!
Employees enrolled in a Corning medical plan administered by UnitedHealthcare or Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, will pay a $1,430 tobacco use surcharge each year on an after-tax basis if they and/or any of their Covered Adult Dependents are Tobacco Users. Employees can avoid paying the surcharge if they either (a) certify themselves and their Covered Adult Dependents as being Tobacco-Free or (b) agree that any Tobacco Users will participate and complete the Pelago tobacco cessation program by June 30 of the subsequent plan year. View the Tobacco Surcharge Policy HERE for more details.
