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Healthwise Handbook

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The Healthwise Handbook Self-Care Program drives claims down, keeps employees at work, saves you money, and is available in English and Spanish

Get CountyChoice, and every covered employee gets a free book and training for the program that has:
• Decreased emergency room charges 5.2%
• Decreased inpatient hospital admissions 8%*
• Decreased inpatient hospital days 9%*
• Decreased outpatient hospital visits 7%*
• Decreased outpatient services by 12%*

Healthwise Handbook

In addition to cost savings, CountyChoice members using the Healthwise Handbook Self-Care Program expect to save 50,000 hours of time lost due to illness in the next year.

For more information about this and other health care programs, contact an Employee Benefits Specialist at the Texas Association of Counties at (800) 456-5974.

 

 

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