KFF June 9, 2020
In 2019, 84% of large employers (200 or more workers) offering health benefits offered a workplace wellness program, such as those to help people lose weight, stop smoking, or provide lifestyle and behavioral coaching; in addition 4% of large offering firms have programs that exclusively do health screening, meaning in total almost 9 in 10 firms have some sort of workplace wellness program (88%). An estimated 63 million covered employees, including 59 million at large employers work for firms which offer health benefits and one of these workplace wellness programs.1 The Employer Health Benefit Survey (EHBS) has tracked the growth in workplace wellness programs from 2008 when about 70% of large employers (with 41 million covered employees) offered them. Overtime...