Promoting Policy

The New York State Health Foundation has established the Diabetes Policy Center to support private and public payment policies that enable providers to sustain a more comprehensive, coordinated system of care for patients with diabetes. The Center also will support community-based policy strategies. Specifically, the Center focuses on:

• Ensuring that reimbursement and incentive payment policies support acheiving positive health outcomes for New Yorkers with or at risk for diabetes
• Increasing access to comprehensive diabetes services and supplies
• Supporting healthy living environments

The Center will achieve its goals by:

• Educating policy makers and other stakeholders on important policy issues related to diabetes in New York
• Conducting and funding policy analyses
• Building consensus among stakeholders
• Leveraging additional resources

The Center supports the work of its partners by:

• Making up-to-date and actionable data available
• Disseminating information and tools
• Providing technical assistance to change or improve policies
• Convening stakeholders and facilitating policy change
• Ensuring public recognition for organizations that help reverse the diabetes epidemic