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UnitedHealth Group will cover these services at no charge to plan participants enrolled in employer-provided health insurance plans, marking the first time in the country that a health plan will pay for evidence-based diabetes prevention and control programs.

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This is an important finding for the 30 million people world-wide who are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes every year.

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One out of every four Medicare dollars is spent on beneficiaries with diabetes, with a high percentage attributed to tertiary illness caused by unmanaged or under-managed diabetes.

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UnitedHealthcare’s Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program and Diabetes Health Plan were recognized by the NBCH for their ability to help enhance health care safety and quality while reducing costs.

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The most common service that doctors provided their patients with diabetes was instruction in, and evaluation of, self-monitoring blood glucose levels.

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Diabetics Using Twitter to Track Sugar Levels.

by Martin Trussell on January 21, 2009

in Health, Health IT, Social media

When I first conceived of writing about how health insurance plans were possibly using social media technologies like Facebook and Twitter to engage their members to seek better health, I was expecting to find more applications like the one at http://twitter.com/ss1.
Now diabetics can quickly add sugar and med entries via Twitter direct message to the [...]

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