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Improving Diabetes Care in Communities (continued)
- Baltimore/DC
- Fragmented health system approached by employers working with health plans to improve care delivery performance
- Use eValue8 data from NBCH to measure health plan performance including disease management details—Dennis Scanlon PhD, Penn State, assists
- Employers ask for diabetes ROI calculator to convince senior management of merits of diabetes care improvement
- Find variation in performance among four plans with Lewin Group assistance
- Convene plans with AHRQ and Lewin Group experts to discuss data and consider strategies for performance improvement
- Employers include disease management performance improvement goals in benefit contracts
- MABGH provides feedback to NBCH for improvement of eValue8 tool
- Expected Result: Improved disease management performance through data-driven competition among health plans
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