Webinar Reminder: Learn About Diabetes Prevention Programs

Register Now | June 13, 2018 | 12:00 PM ET

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)

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