§ 35-25-301 — Diabetes care planning; reports to the legislature

(a) The department of health shall develop a plan to
reduce the incidence of diabetes in Wyoming, improve diabetes
care, and control complications associated with diabetes. The
plan shall include identification of goals and benchmarks. The
department shall submit the plan to the joint labor, health and
social services interim committee by October 1, 2014.
(b) The department of health shall track for statistical
and trending analysis the following:
(i) The prevalence of all types of diabetes in the
state and the financial impact that diabetes is having on the
state. Items included in this assessment shall include the
number of individuals with diabetes, the number of individuals
with diabetes and family members impacted by prevention and
diabetes control programs implemented by the department, the
financial toll or impact diabetes and its complications place on
the Medicaid program and the financial toll or impact diabetes
and its complications place on the Medicaid program in
comparison to other chronic diseases and conditions;
(ii) An assessment of the benefits of implemented
programs and activities aimed at controlling diabetes and
preventing the disease;
(iii) A description of the level of coordination
existing between the department, other agencies and Eastern
Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes on activities, programmatic
activities and messaging on managing, treating or preventing all
forms of diabetes and its complications;
(iv) Detailed action plans for battling diabetes with
a range of actionable items for consideration by the
legislature. The plans shall identify proposed action steps to
reduce the impact of diabetes, prediabetes and related diabetes
complications. The plan shall also identify expected outcomes
of the action steps proposed in the following biennium while
also establishing benchmarks for controlling and preventing
relevant forms of diabetes; and
(v) The impact of gestational diabetes on the
Medicaid population, including an analysis of cost implications,
the number of pregnant women screened and diagnosed and patient
outcome measures and recommended strategies to reduce the impact
of the condition and to improve outcomes for this population;
(vi) The development of a detailed budget blueprint
identifying needs, costs and resources required to implement the
plan developed pursuant to this section. The blueprint shall
include a budget range for all options presented in the plan for
consideration by the legislature.