Diabetes

In a conference call the morning after a landmark vote, Dexcom's president and CEO said the company will not wait for final FDA approval to start talks with CMS.

CMS' Innovation Center created Million Hearts to identify Medicare beneficiaries most at risk of heart disease and cardiovascular events.

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The move was cheered by a packed room of diabetes patients, parents, advocates, and doctors. Some see the change as a first step toward getting Medicare to cover CGM.

Minority teens were more likely to have undiagnosed diabetes or prediabetes, the researchers report.

Despite evidence and clinical guidelines that support intensive statin use in high-risk patients, very few eligible patients start treatment at recommended levels.

AstraZeneca is trying to invoke the Orphan Drug Act to protect its blockbuster, on the grounds it is approved to treat a rare pediatric condition.

The study found that the mortality risk for poor black men, relative to similar white men, persisted even when taking factors like education, employment, and marital status into account.

In a National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey secondary analysis, privately and publicly insured patients with diabetes were both more likely to meet quality indicators than the uninsured.

Teenagers who started with an average BMI of 51.7 were able to reduce that by more than 40% over the first year after surgery. They were able to complete a lap of an outdoor track nearly a half-minute faster on average, and fewer reported being in pain.

The tool will let pump users get updates of new features in between replacement of their hardware.

The top stories in managed care this week included coverage of JAMA’s special issue on healthcare transformation under the ACA, changes in the proposed 2017 Physician Fee Schedule promoting value-based care, and more.

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Physician groups like some part of the new fee plan but find other overly burdensome.

Researchers found health benefits even for those who started cycling close to retirement.

The study of 3.9 million adults culled data from 189 studies; participants were non-smokers who had no known chronic disease and lived at least 5 years to be included in the analysis.

Researchers examined genetic information from 120,000 people from across the globe. The effort involved more than 300 scientists, including NIH's Francis Collins, MD, PhD.

Evidence that surgery can reverse diabetes is so compelling that new guidelines from the American Diabetes Association call for using procedures to treat diabetes, not just obesity. But the mechanism has remained a mystery.

The proposal to fund the collaborative care model is part of a broader effort to direct $900 million into primary care, mental health, and care coordination.

Details of how Medicare will deliver the Diabetes Prevention Program include efforts to prevent fraud, ensure patient privacy, and tie payment to value-based principles.

Body mass index has long been known to be an imperfect instrument; it can declare world class athletes obese while missing people with high body fat on a slender frame.

A recent study of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Web-based patient portal, My HealtheVet, found a small, statistically significant and potentially meaningful improvement in diabetes-related physiologic measures among patients who started and sustained use of the portal's features.

Researchers from Washington University in Saint Louis did experiments on mice and found that the effects of high fat, high sucrose diets lasted into the 3rd generation.

If the full FDA accepts the panel's narrow recommendation, the type 2 diabetes therapy could enjoy a preferred status above its rivals in the SGLT2 market.

New Health Care Cost Institute report analyzed how much money is spent on children and adults with diabetes, where the money goes, and how that compares to individuals who do not have diabetes.

The Endocrine Society notes that diabetes has become more prevalent as people report sleeping fewer hours per night.

The citation from the World Economic Forum allows the digital behavioral health company to participate in the annual meeting of new champions.Some will also participate in the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Coverage from Patient-Centered Diabetes Care, April 7-8, 2016. Presented by The American Journal of Managed Care and Joslin Diabetes Center.

Coverage from Patient-Centered Diabetes Care, April 7-8, 2016. Presented by The American Journal of Managed Care and Joslin Diabetes Center.