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CHT's Georgia Project Leads to Increase in Physicians Recognized ...

...Worksite educational programs will be carried out in association with the Columbus Chamber of Commerce and major private employers in the area, including divisions of major area corporations, employees of the Columbus city government, and healthcare workers.

Additional highlights of the program include plans for a project to screen 100 percent of all eligible Medicare recipients in Columbus for diabetes and also to implement a uniform system of insulin delivery at Columbus hospitals.

More about the NCQA's DPRP Programs: The National Committee for Quality Assurance developed the Diabetes Physician Recognition Program in partnership with the ADA in 1997.

Three founding supporters of the popular Physician Recognition programs include GlaxoSmithKline, Novo Nordisk, and Pfizer Inc.

To earn diabetes recognition, a physician or physician groups must collect and submit data related to the treatment of people with diabetes, such as the percentage of patients whose Those that meet or exceed national performance thresholds are recognized on a dedicated Web page and added to a referral list, to which NCQA and ADA direct interested consumers.

More than 2,600 physicians have been recognized to date.

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CHT's Georgia Project Leads to Increase in Physicians Recognized ...