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Cost Effective Treatment Options For Uninsured Patients With Diabetes, Sidney Selva, Ryan Bialaszewski, Elizabeth Althaus, Pamela Campos, Shuaibahmed M. Arab, Chelsea Chang
Cost Effective Treatment Options For Uninsured Patients With Diabetes, Sidney Selva, Ryan Bialaszewski, Elizabeth Althaus, Pamela Campos, Shuaibahmed M. Arab, Chelsea Chang
Research Symposium
Background: Approximately 37.3 million people in the United States have diabetes, accounting for 14.7% of the US population. Additionally, an estimated 2 million adults with diabetes have no health insurance coverage, which can contribute to chronic co-morbidities and increase all-cause mortality. Given the economic challenges these uninsured patients may face, it is important for healthcare providers to understand the cost-effective treatment options available to improve long-term outcomes. Therefore, this abstract aims to provide a cost-effective treatment algorithm for uninsured patients with diabetes.
Case Presentation: Our patient was a 47-year-old uninsured Hispanic female with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus. The …