Tools to Assist: Assessment Tools for Employers

Employers can use the tools in this section to determine if their work environment and health benefits are diabetes-friendly. It also includes a worksheet that employers can give to employees to help them make the best choice if multiple health benefit plans are available.

Recommended Activities

• Diabetes in the Workplace: Guidelines for Employers
  This worksheet directs employers to examine the workplace environment and what food choices and information are available in the workplace. The object of this worksheet is to encourage employers to assess how well they currently serve the needs of their employees with diabetes and to offer guidance on how to improve.
  • Diabetes in the Workplace: Guidelines for Employers

• Diabetes Care and Employer Sponsored Health Insurance
  This is a worksheet for employers to use to better evaluate and manage health benefits.
  • Health Benefits for Diabetes Care: Employer Assessment Tool

• Health Benefits and Your Diabetes Care
  This worksheet is designed to assist employees with diabetes better understand how their particular health plan covers services relating to the care of diabetes and how well they manage diabetes care. Employers should fill out the answers to the questions on this worksheet before providing it to employees. If more than one health plan option exists, employers should provide employees with the completed information for all health plan options so that employees can make an informed choice.
  • Health Benefits for Diabetes Care: Employee Assessment Tool

• Sample Benefits for Diabetes
  These documents serve as examples for the type of information employers can include in their health benefit descriptions to help employees understand what benefits are available for diabetes care. The information on can be a supplement to the employer’s specific plan offerings, such as the exclusions, out of pocket maximums, deductibles, coinsurance, and co-payments.
  • Alkar-RapidPak—Health Care Plan
  • Medicare—Diabetes Screening, Supplies, and Self-Management Training
  • Physicians Plus— Benefits for Common Diabetes Services
  • Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds—Comparison of State Plan Types
  • Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds—Pharmacy Benefits

• Disease Management
  These documents examine disease management: coordinated care interventions and communications for health conditions that require significant self-care efforts. The resources introduce the concept, examine the business case for diabetes disease management, and include suggestions on working with disease management vendors.
  • Disease Management: A Promising Approach for Health Care Purchasers
  • Do Disease Management Programs Deliver ROI?
  • Buying Disease Management: Criteria and Comparisons

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