Medical Claim Cost Impact of Improved Diabetes Control for Medicare and Commercially Insured Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Abstract

Results of this analysis suggest that better control of A1c, blood pressure, and lipids is associated with savings opportunities in commercially insured and Medicare patients with type 2 diabetes. A focus on only patients with uncontrolled A1c offers a somewhat higher per-patient cost reduction than for all uncontrolled diabetes patients but greatly diminishes the number of targeted patients.