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SPOTLIGHT: Diabetes management: worth the cost?
May 7, 2007 — 8:01pm ET
No one argues that over the long term, managing diabetes intelligently can cut down on long-term medical costs by stemming hugely expensive complications. The question is, do such management programs pay off over the short term? If not, health plans have little incentive to address the problem, according to one analysis. Article
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