What services does the Indian Health Service provide to Native Americans with diabetes?
Services vary from tribe to tribe and depend on how each tribe decides to spend their budget. They basically go by “primary,” “secondary” or “tertiary” levels of care. The decisions are made with varying levels of freedom. For example, we are a 638 tribe, which means we decide what services we do or don’t offer, while complying with regulations, and on how we spend our budget. What particular tribes do you work with? The Paiute Tribe of Utah and any Native American who meets the health service’s rules of eligibility. In addition to your home state of Utah, what other states receive services from the Indian Health Service? Basically all of them in the Continental United States and in Alaska. Are services provided only to Native Americans on reservations, or are Native Americans living in cities, towns and rural areas eligible for services as well? All of the above, as long as they meet the eligibility criteria. What is the current status of diabetes in the Native American population, an
