Policy Considerations That Make the Link
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An Alliance report, Policy Considerations That Make the Link: Connecting Community Experience and National Policy to Reduce Disparities in Diabetes, poses a series of policy considerations for reducing disparities in diabetes in the new era of Health Reform. These considerations derive from the on-the-ground experiences of the five Alliance sites, along with deliberations among academic, government, consumer and provider experts convened at an invited national summit. |
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Policy Considerations Report
Executive Summary
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The considerations pose a series of questions surrounding the identified need to realign financial incentives affecting health systems, providers and patients as a mechanism for reducing disparities in diabetes. The six core considerations include:
- Encourage greater integration of public health and health care systems
- Share and report community-wide health data
- Eliminate incentives that encourage underinvestment in low-income, high-risk patients
- Optimize Accountable Care Organizations’ (ACOs) abilities to reduce disparities
- Support deployment of Community Health Workers (CHWs)
- Enhance diabetes self-management supports