The main menu on the Coverage Toolkit has been reorganized to better represent the categories of pages and accommodate the continued expansion of Toolkit content.

A few pages of the Toolkit have been rearranged to fit within the new main menu. Changes have been made to what was formerly the Participating Payers page. The page has been split up and made into four new pages to help users navigate the information. Each of the pages was updated to reflect current knowledge of payer and employer coverage for the National DPP lifestyle change program. The landing page for links to the newly separated pages that include information from the former Participating Payer page is located under the National DPP tab on the “Who Covers the National DPP?” page.

Engaging Correctional Facilities

The Engaging Correctional Facilities page was added to the Toolkit to present ways to increase health equity and the quality of life for individuals who are incarcerated by providing the National DPP lifestyle change program in correctional facilities.

This page includes the recently released white paper from Leavitt Partners, an HMA company, “Implementing the National DPP Lifestyle Change Program in Correctional Settings.” This paper highlights the following:

• The need for type 2 diabetes prevention in correctional facilities, such as prisons and jails,
• A study demonstrating the feasibility of offering the program in correctional facilities,
• A program spotlight on how the Wisconsin Department of Corrections has successfully offered the program in three facilities and achieved full CDC-recognition status for delivering the program, and
• Suggestions for how the program could be implemented in other correctional facilities