The National Clinical Care Commission Report to Congress: Leveraging Federal Policies and Programs to Improve Diabetes Treatment and Reduce Complications

Patient level: reduce barriers and streamline administrative processes to improve access to diabetes self-management training, diabetes devices, virtual care and insulin

Practice level: enhance programs supporting team-based care and develop capacity for technology-enabled mentoring interventions

Health system level: Department of Health and Human Services to routinely assess health care workforce needs and ensure funding of training programs to meet them

Health policy level: establish a process to identify and ensure pre-deductible insurance coverage for high-value diabetes treatments and services

Health policy level: develop a quality measure that reduces risk of hypoglycemia and enhances patient safety