If wellness programs were implemented for state employees, Medicaid recipients and private businesses, Texas could see a net gain in economic activity of billions of dollars and thousands of jobs, a new study maintains.
A comprehensive package of prevention, wellness and smoking-cessation programs for state employees would provide $338.5 million in fiscal revenues over 2 years and about 2,500 jobs, according to the study, which was sponsored by the Texas Coalition for Worksite Wellness, Austin.