Join Healthy People 2020 and the Diabetes Advocacy Alliance on Wednesday, June 13 at 12:00 p.m. ET for a Spotlight on Health webinar about diabetes prevention programs (DPPs) and new payment options. We’ll discuss:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) and the Diabetes Prevention Recognition Program
The Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program (MDPP), which launched on April 1, 2018
Private-sector coverage for diabetes prevention
Best practices from the YMCA of the USA on offering diabetes prevention programs to individuals with prediabetes
Efforts to increase patient referrals to DPP by educating health care providers
This webinar will highlight the following objectives from the Diabetes topic area:
Reduce the annual number of new cases of diagnosed diabetes in the population (D-1)
Increase prevention behaviors in persons at high risk for diabetes with prediabetes (D-16)
The 2018 Healthy Aging Summit will be here before you know it! We hope you’ll join us on July 16 and 17 in Washington, DC, to explore ways we can help Americans stay healthy as they age. If you haven’t registered yet, there’s good news: we’ve extended our early bird registration deadline! That means you can still save up to $200 if you register by 11:59 p.m. on June 12.
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