Open AccessSelf-Monitoring of Blood Glucose Before and After Medicare Expansion Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Diabetes Who Do Not Use Insulin
Author(s) -
Rui Li,
Ping Zhang,
K.M. Venkat Narayan
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2007.112185
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , logistic regression , population , insulin , blood glucose monitoring , emergency medicine , behavioral risk factor surveillance system , demography , environmental health , endocrinology , sociology
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 authorized Medicare to expand the coverage of glucose monitors and strips to non-insulin users with diabetes and self-management training to non-hospital-based programs. We examined the impact of this expansion on self-monitoring of blood glucose among Medicare beneficiaries who were not using insulin to treat their diabetes.