Chronic Condition Management Solutions
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan offers a range of programs that can help your employees prevent or manage their diabetes or high blood pressure. These programs are for all fully-insured members and available as a buy-up for self-insured customers.
How chronic conditions impact your workplace
Employees with diabetes account for $327 billion in medical costs, lost work and lost wages.
Medical costs for people with diabetes are more than twice as high as those without diabetes.
Over one-third of all physician's office visits are associated with hypertension.
How we can help
Management programs for diabetes, hypertension and weight management can help your employees manage their conditions and save on health care costs.
These programs go beyond traditional care to reduce the likelihood of significant long-term health risks and positively impact the cost for care. We have a range of solutions, allowing you to choose the option that works best for your employee’s health care needs.
There’s no additional work required from your benefits team. These programs work directly with your employees and their family members to provide tools and solutions to help them successfully manage their conditions.
Diabetes management
This program provides your employees with personalized support to help manage Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes and reduce the risk of complications, as well as addressing related conditions such as weight, hypertension, dyslipidemia and mental health conditions.
This program includes:
- A cellular-connected meter that offers real-time feedback following a glucose reading with food and activity tracking.
- Certified diabetes care and education specialists will then help your employees understand the impact of their lifestyle habits.
Hypertension management
This program tracks progress and offers personalized support for hypertension as well as dyslipidemia, weight management and mental health. It provides your employees with timely support to help them make healthy choices and reduce the risk of hypertension complications.
The program includes:
- A connected blood pressure monitor that captures your employee’s readings automatically, with digital reports that can be easily shared with care providers or loved ones.
- Virtual and face-to-face support by chronic care professionals reinforce healthy behavior, with medication support for your employees who need it.
- Coaching to help your employees understand their condition and make healthy choices that can lead to improvement.
Diabetes prevention
This program helps your employees with weight management, as well as hypertension, dyslipidemia and mental health. It provides unlimited messaging and one-on-one sessions with expert coaches, as well as online meetups, health challenges and strategies for healthy living.
The program includes:
- A connected weight scale that captures weigh-ins automatically, supported by activity tracking, food logging and personalized one-to-one coaching.
- Coaches with backgrounds in nursing, nutrition, behavioral psychology and exercise physiology provide nonjudgmental digital and one-on-one human support.
- Self-guided, app-based lessons and live coaching for motivation and results.
Weight management
The weight management program provides support from a certified health coach. They help your employees with an easy-to-follow, personalized plan to improve nutrition, physical exercise and sleep habits.
This program includes:
- A smart scale to track
- A certified health coach to help with challenges and provide encouragement for making healthy lifestyle choices
Teladoc Health Introduction to Hypertension Management
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