The total cost of diabetes care and management comes to approximately $245 billion each year. Of that, over $60 billion each year is attributed to factors which directly hurt businesses: increased absenteeism ($5 billion), reduced productivity ($20.8 billion), inability to work caused by diabetes-related disability ($21.6 billion), and early mortality ($18.5 billion). People diagnosed with diabetes incur about $7,900 in diabetes care costs each year, and patients with diabetes typically have medical expenditures 2.3 times higher than their non-diabetic counterparts. The total cost is so high that over 1 in 5 health care dollars is spent on care for people with diagnosed diabetes. (Source: From Evidence to Practice: Workplace Wellness that Works, Institute for Health and Productivity Studies Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2015.)