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Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose Before and After Medicare Expansion Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Diabetes Who Do Not Use Insulin

Rui Li, PhD, Ping Zhang, PhD and K.M. Venkat Narayan, MD

Rui Li and Ping Zhang are with the Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga. K.M. Venkat Narayan is with the Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta.


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FIGURE 1— Timeline of the Medicare expansion.

Note. BBA = Balanced Budget Act.

 

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FIGURE 2— Probability of performing self-monitoring of blood glucose at least once daily among persons with diabetes who do not use insulin, by insurance coverage: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1996–2000.

Note. Unadjusted weighted probability.

 

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FIGURE 3— Predicted probabilities of self-monitoring of blood glucose by persons with diabetes who do not use insulin, by time period and group: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1996–2000.

Notes. SMBG = self-monitoring of blood glucose; BBA = Balanced Budget Act. Weighted probabilities, adjusted for diabetes duration, age, gender, race/ethnicity, marital status, education, and family income. *P ≤ .05; **P ≤ .01; ***P ≤ .001; all compared with the time period of 0–12 months before BBA.

 





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