Exploring Better Approaches to Long-Term Health and Metabolic Care
We're conducting interviews with self-insured Michigan companies to find market-based solutions to the long-term employer costs connected to obesity, metabolic health, and GLP-1 roll-outs. Great Lakes Preventive Medicine is a nonprofit discovery initiative based in central Michigan.
Current Questions We're Exploring
Our current focus is understanding how self-insured employers and healthcare leaders are approaching rising GLP-1 usage and opportunities it presents for new approaches to long-term metabolic care.
Employer Benefits and Chronic Disease
How are employers balancing benefit access and costs as chronic diseases (obesity, diabetes, heart disease) take up an increasing share of healthcare dollars?
GLP-1 Utilization
How are employers managing growing utilization of weight-loss drugs and handling the escalating costs?
Lifestyle Medicine
Are there medical protocols and support structures that will enable long-term chronic disease risk reductions across employee populations?
Discovery Interviews Across Michigan
We are conducting 50+ conversations with self-insured employers and healthcare leaders across Michigan to understand the challenges, priorities, and emerging opportunities connected to large-scale chronic disease risk, rising GLP-1 usage, metabolic health, and lifestyle medicine.
Sample Questions
- 01What financial challenges are emerging from rising chronic disease risk?
- 02What outcomes matter most when managing healthcare benefits for chronic disease?
- 03What steps has your organization taken to address the rising cost of GLP-1's?
- 04Where are current support models for GLP-1 roll-out insufficient?
- 05What opportunities exist for future pilot programs?
Where we are in the journey
- ✓Discovery InterviewsIn progress
- Findings ReportNext
- Pilot DevelopmentFall 2026
- Outcomes RegistrySpring 2027
Michigan Employer GLP-1 & Long-Term Health Findings Report
A synthesis of insights from interviews regarding GLP-1 utilization, employer health strategy, obesity, metabolic health, and emerging support models.
The report is intended to summarize themes and observations rather than make clinical recommendations.
- Employers
- Physicians
- Benefits leaders
- Health innovators
Participate in an Interview
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