Understanding How Health Policy Affects Weight Loss Counseling and Diabetes Care

People with diabetes are at higher risk of death from COVID-19. The enhancement to this project will add to the understanding of Medicare's obesity counseling program on diabetes outcomes by examining use and outcomes related to the transition to virtual visits for patients with or at high risk of diabetes before, during and after COVID-19. The study team's PaTH Clinical Data Research Network infrastructure across five health systems allows comparison of Medicare patients from over 2,200 primary care clinics and their provision of outpatient care (e.g., telephonic, virtual face-to-face via telemedicine, or in-person) and the correlation with patient-centered outcomes.