Primary Care Provides Most Diabetes Care
Primary care provides most diabetes care. “76 percent of non-hospital-based office visits in the US in which diabetes was the patient’s stated reason for the visit occurred in primary care settings.” It is the third most common visit in an outpatient primary care office. That means that if diabetes care is to improve, for most patients it must happen in the primary care setting. Primary care provides most diabetes care and it is on of the most common diagnoses leading to an office visit.
As the link describes, case management is critical to provide the time to help patients understand their disease and self-manage. Most case management is ineffective because the case manager and the practice are not on the same page. Case managers and the practice team may have little or no contact. Case managers don’t have the authority to change care. We can provide case managers, training, and protocols that lead to a consistent best practice approach for diabetes along with the analytics that document better clinical and financial outcomes. If your practice is large enough to have their own case managers, we can provide protocols and train the entire team to produce optimal medical therapy. If better diabetes care is important for your value-based contracts, we can help. whbester@gmail.com