NYS Diabetes Campaign

Practice Management

The New York State Diabetes Campaign is a five-year, $35 million initiative launched by the New York State Health Foundation to reverse the diabetes epidemic in the state.

Together We Can Reverse the Diabetes Epidemic

Improve clinical care and patient outcomes
The Campaign promotes the adoption of clinical best practices at community health centers, hospital outpatient departments, and private practices to improve the access to and quality of primary care for patients with diabetes. This work ensures that people with diabetes receive the right care, at the right time, in the right setting, and at the right cost to achieve the best health outcomes.
Mobilize communities
The Campaign supports community-based strategies to identify New Yorkers with diabetes who do not know they have the disease, support people in managing their diabetes, and link people to clinical care and promote healthy eating and physical activity.

Promote policy
The Campaign advocates for private and public payment policies that enable providers to deliver more comprehensive, coordinated care for patients with diabetes. It also supports community-based policy strategies, such as making nutritious foods and recreation spaces more available.

Resources

Earn Incentives and Receive Technical Assistance As You Achieve Diabetes Recognition
NYACP, as one of the New York State Health Foundation’s Diabetes Campaign clinical partners, continues to offer opportunities that encourage members to improve their diabetes care and outcomes and to achieve NCQA DRP Recognition. This year, the Chapter will provide technical assistance, underwrite the NCQA application fees and provide a $1,000 incentive to 40 eligible solo practitioners (sole proprietors) to achieve Diabetes Recognition Program certification.
Contact Lisa Noel, NYACP Manager, Practice Support Services to learn if you are eligible.

NYSHealth Foundation Simplifies Application for Small Practices: Offers $2500 Per Physician To Advance Diabetes Goals
The New York State Health Foundation has launched a new initiative and is offering $2500 per physician who achieves NCQA or BTE diabetes recognition through the Meeting the Mark: Achieving Excellence in Diabetes Care request for proposals (RFP).

This proposal invites physicians and organizations across New York to apply for funds to improve the quality of care for people with diabetes and to support primary care physicians in achieving recognition by the NCQA or BTE diabetes programs. The small practice application has been simplified to require minimal information in order to expediate the process.

Download the RFP
Small Practice Application (10 or fewer Physicians)
Large Practice Application (11 or more Physicians)

ACP Diabetes Care Guide
The online ACP Diabetes Care Guide is concise, authoritative, and up-to-date, an ideal educational format for clinical teams learning to improve their care of patients with diabetes. Through 80 case-based, self-assessment questions, physicians and their clinical teams can learn to deliver optimal care including overviews of treatment, seminal clinical studies, drug treatments, and patient communication skills.
It is free and available online.

NYACP Diabetes Advisory Group

Louis Snitkoff, MD, FACP, Chair
Bilal Ahmed, MD, FACP
Janice Barnhart , MD, FACP
Paul Gitman MD, MACP
Kenneth Hupart , MD, FACP
Nazir Memon, MD, FACP
Carlos Mendez, MD, FACP
Ruth Weinstock, MD, FACP

Useful Links

Questions?
Please contact Lisa Noel at NYACP to participate or receive more information:

Lisa H. Noel
Manager, Practice Support Services
Phone: 518-427-0366
Email: lnoel@nyacp.org

Last Updated: 12.3.12