The association of a diabetes-specific health plan with ER and inpatient hospital utilization: a natural experiment for translation in diabetes (NEXT-D)
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Context The Diabetes Health Plan (DHP) is a disease-specific health plan for patients with diabetes and pre-diabetes which offers reduced cost sharing for pharmacy, office visits and disease management. The DHP was purchased by some employers and not by others, creating a unique opportunity to conduct a rigorous evaluation of a realworld, naturally occurring intervention, i.e., a natural experiment.
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