Diabetes Reality Bites
This week’s Diabetes Forum 2009 conference was two full days of presentations on policy and reform — a dizzying array of statistics and political jargon and acronyms like “four-tier formularies,” “SNPs” and “VBID” and “double-digit Medicare margin.” Surely all very important stuff in the netherworlds of managed care and reimbursement administration. But what the heck?! I gladly reminded this crowd that these terms mean little if nothing to the average patient.
So what DOES concern…