Evaluation of the diabetes health plan to improve diabetes care and prevention.

摘要: Investigators from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and members leadership data analysis teams at UnitedHealthcare (UHC) are partnering to evaluate Diabetes Health Plan (DHP), an innovative disease-specific insurance product designed by UHC specifically for patients with prediabetes or diabetes. The DHP provides improved access care management, telephone coaching, enhanced Internet-based communication enrollees. evaluation will use a quasi-experimental design, comparing employer groups that offer do not, determine effect on incidence diabetes, adherence metformin, costs among prediabetes. Other factors studied be cardiovascular risk factor control, preventive services, health use, existing