{"id":10247,"date":"2020-01-06T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T03:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/blog\/?p=10247"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:26:06","slug":"diabetes-pre-diabetes-and-dsmes-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/blog\/diabetes-pre-diabetes-and-dsmes-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes, Pre-Diabetes and DSMES Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than 30 million Americans have diabetes. Another 84 million US adults have prediabetes, a serious health condition in which blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not high enough yet to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. A person with prediabetes is at high risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. DSMES Program can help patients with their diabetes management during times of emergency.<\/p>\n

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Fast Facts:<\/strong> More than 30 million people in the United States have diabetes, and 1 in 4 of them don\u2019t know they have it.<\/p>\n

Diabetes also increases the risk of heart disease and stroke and can lead to other serious complications, such as kidney failure, blindness, and amputation of a toe, foot, or leg. People with diabetes spend more on health care, have fewer productive years, and miss more workdays compared to people who don\u2019t have diabetes. In 2017, the total estimated cost of diagnosed diabetes was $327 billion, including $237 billion in direct medical costs and $90 billion in reduced productivity.<\/p>\n

Fast Facts:<\/strong> More than 84 million US adults\u20141 in 3\u2014have prediabetes, and 90% of them don\u2019t know they have it.<\/p>\n

Some people are at higher risk of type 2 diabetes because they:<\/h3>\n