Diabetes

NACCHO invites you to support the Y-USA’s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Health Care Innovation Award (CMMI HCIA) project. This is a 3-year collaborative effort funded by the CMMI to demonstrate the ability of Y’s to deliver the YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program at a cost savings to the Medicare program. We encourage you as a local health department to be an active stakeholder in preventing the onset of diabetes by raising public awareness of prediabetes. You can get involved in the fight against diabetes by referring seniors with prediabetes to the YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program. Listed below are the criteria for enrollment in the program:
• Adults age 60 or older
• Overweight (BMI > 25)
• Medicare parts A and/or B beneficiary
• Diagnosed with prediabetes confirmed via one of 3 blood tests 

For more information, please contact Truemenda Green.

The National Council on Aging (NCOA) website features a variety of resources specific to Medicare's diabetes self-management training benefit, including a comprehensive toolkit, FAQs, webinars, and tip sheets. Several of these resources focus on use of the Stanford diabetes self-management program as part of an expanded (ADA-recognized or AADE-accredited) diabetes self-management education program that meets the requirements for Medicare reimbursement. Click here to visit the NCOA website where you can find a webinar recording on diabetes self-management accreditation and medicare reimbursement, a tip sheet on how to work with a federally qualified health center, and more.

Since 2010, NACCHO, in partnership with the CDC and the Diabetes Training and Technical Assistance Center (DTTAC) at Emory University, has trained 36 local health departments (LHDs) and their community partners in Diabetes Today: Planning for Coalition Action, a two-day training designed to build capacity in planning and implementing community-based programs. NACCHO provides ongoing technical assistance as the LHDs and their coalitions develop and carry out an action plan. Read more about their work here.

NACCHO and the LHDs that participated in the Diabetes Today training program have produced a number of resources for use by local diabetes prevention and management coalitions. In May 2012, NACCHO compiled a document to summarize the 120+ page Sustainability Planning Guide for Healthy Communities from the CDC. Access the document here. Other tools available include an action planning template, community resource guide, and survey.