You’re Living Through an Exciting Time in Diabetes Prevention History!
Over the past three months, you’ve seen the release of the 2018 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Recognition Program Standards. You witnessed an historic expansion in Medicare coverage to reimburse the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP) for approximately 22 million older Americans with prediabetes. The American Medical Association has just asked for your comments—yes, yours!—on its landmark Prediabetes Quality Measures. And, in our latest practice survey, 3/4 of respondents across the country reported doing diabetes prevention with another 21 percent using CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program.