• Create strong provider teams and share roles and expectations with patients.
For payment reform, they recommended:
• Reimburse providers appropriately for meeting standards of care in treating their patients by paying adequately for all services delivered.
• Test and implement payment models that reward providers for supplying optimal care to patients with diabetes.
And to address workforce supply:
• Work to make diabetes care an attractive choice for new medical professionals through educational loan forgiveness.
• Promote the importance of providing optimal diabetes care as an essential aspect of the health care system.
• Expand access to diabetes modules to educate primary care providers on treatment of diabetes.
The study was funded by Medtronic, Abbott, Bayer, DexCom, Johnson & Johnson, Roche, and Sanofi-Aventis. However, the working group members were not individually compensated.