Help Raise
Awareness About Diabetes During National Diabetes Awareness Month
The
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health
(CMS OMH) is recognizing National Diabetes Awareness Month in November.
There are three main types of diabetes – type 1, type 2, and
gestational diabetes (diabetes while pregnant). Type 2 diabetes is the
most prevalent form of diabetes with about 90-95% of the estimated 34
million people living with diabetes having type 2 diabetes. There are
also an additional 88 million Americans with prediabetes.
As
incidences of new diabetes cases have become more prevalent among
non-Hispanic Blacks coupled with existing cases being highest among
American Indian and Alaska Native people, it is important to highlight
and address health disparities in diabetes impacting minority
populations. Factors including lack of access to healthcare, quality of
care received, and socioeconomic status have disproportionately
affected racial and ethnic minority populations in both the prevalence
of this disease and health outcomes.
Recognizing
National Diabetes Month is part of our ongoing strategy to share
resources and initiatives that aim to improve access to healthcare
services and improve health equity. Below are several resources that
healthcare professionals can use to help their patients manage their
diabetes.
Resources
- Review our newly
released data snapshot, Diabetes Disparities in Medicare Fee-for-Service
Beneficiaries, that examines disparities in quality of
diabetes care and preventable utilization of healthcare services
by race, ethnicity, and social determinants of health factors for
Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries with type 1 or type 2 diabetes.
- Download Managing Diabetes: Medicare Coverage and
Resources to help patients with managing their diabetes
and health coverage. This resource is also available in Spanish.
- Just updated! Review Diabetes Prevention Programs: Equity
Tailored Resources which identifies resources for
providers and care teams focusing on prevention and evidence-based
lifestyle intervention.
- Familiarize yourself
with the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program: Click here for provider
information or visit this site for Medicare beneficiaries.
- Read CMS OMH’s Diabetes Management: Directory of Provider
Resources which identifies resources on the management
of type 2 diabetes that could be useful for providers and care
teams.
- Read the CDC’s Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States,
2021, a fact sheet on Chronic Kidney Disease, which
affects 15% of American adults. This resource is also available in
Spanish.
- Download the Connected Care Toolkit, a chronic
care management (CCM) resource that contains educational materials
to raise awareness about the importance of CCM services for
Medicare and dual-eligible patients with multiple conditions.
- Watch Connecting the Dots, an animated
video that provides CCM services information for Medicare patients
living with multiple chronic conditions.
- Read CMS OMH’s Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes
Prevalence, Self-Management, and Health Outcomes among Medicare
Beneficiaries, which examines the prevalence of
diabetes among Medicare beneficiaries based on a variety of
factors such as race and ethnicity.
- CMS has a “Insulin
Savings” filter on Medicare Plan Finder to display plans that will
offer the capped out-of-pocket costs for insulin. Click here to learn more.
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