“…In a blog posted Monday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma implored providers to take part in her agency’s expanded diabetes prevention initiative. The Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program, or MDPP, involves deploying community health workers to help empower beneficiaries who are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes. They do so through health coaching and to help with changing behaviors and weight control…”
“Diabetes exerts an unacceptable toll on our beneficiaries, their families and the Medicare program, which spends more than $104 billion every year treating patients with this preventable disease,” Verma wrote. “The Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program is leveraging innovation to bring valuable preventive…” Read the full article here.
Source: CMS targets $180 million in Medicare diabetes savings – By Marty Stempniak, May 1, 2018. McKnight’s Long-Term Care News.
