Health New England partners with Virta Health to offer members a Nutritional Therapy for Weight Loss and Diabetes Reversal Program. The program is provided at no cost to eligible members.* Virta\u2019s program is available for eligible Medicare Advantage members and fully funded Commercial members and their covered dependents 18 years and older with certain metabolic conditions.*<\/p>\n
Virta is a guided nutrition program for type 2 diabetes and prediabetes reversal, and for safe and sustainable weight loss. Powered by technology and digital health tools, Virta\u2019s care team provides expert medical care, coaching, and on-demand virtual support. Virta\u2019s personalized approach will help members sustainably lose weight while controlling blood sugar with fewer or no medications.<\/p>\n
Please share this information with your patients who may be candidates for the program.<\/strong> Members can check their eligibility and get started by visiting this webpage: virtahealth.com\/join\/healthnewengland<\/a>.<\/p>\n *Medicare Advantage members: Eligibility for Medicare Advantage members includes type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, or a BMI of 25 or greater. <\/em> Health New England partners with Virta Health to offer members a Nutritional Therapy for Weight Loss and Diabetes Reversal Program. The program is provided at no cost to eligible members.* Virta\u2019s program is available for eligible Medicare Advantage members and fully funded Commercial members and their covered dependents 18 years and older with certain metabolic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provider-newsletter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZHB-2gz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8716,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715\/revisions\/8716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/provider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n*Commercial members: Eligibility for Commercial members includes type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, or a BMI of 27 or greater. Self-funded groups with prescription coverage through Health New England have the option to opt into the program. The program for Baystate Health employees on a Health New England plan can be accessed at virtahealth.com\/join\/baystate<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"