AAFP TIPS: Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM): Enhancing Diabetes Care, Workflows, Education,
and Payment
Online CME
Updated! Enhance your diabetes care team workflow in this four-module, on-demand course designed to help you easily incorporate continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) into your practice.
- Overview on the benefits of adding CGM to your practice.
- Identifying patients and assessing readiness to use CGM technology.
- Clinical applications, including patient education on risks and benefits and interpreting data to inform treatment plans.
- Practice-level strategies to successfully add CMG to your workflows, including staff roles, billing, coding, documentation, and authorization.
This CME activity is free.
Diana Aggers
Katherine Beben, MD, FAAFP
Brenda Cabrera
W. Perry Dickinson, MD
Christina M. Hester, PhD, MPH
Jeanette Mackesy
Sean Oser, MD, MPH
Tamara Oser, MD
Andrea Wismann, MD, MSPH
At the end of the activity, you will be able to:
- Develop protocols to identify patients who would qualify for and benefit from CGM.
- Evaluate patients’ readiness to incorporate diabetes technologies into their diabetes management.
- Educate patients on the available evidence, advantages, and drawbacks of CGM as a treatment option.
- Develop shared decision-making plans with patients when CGM is determined to be part of an appropriate medical therapy.
- Establish practice-level strategies for implementation of CGM into diabetes care, including team roles and workflows, billing and coding, documentation, and authorization.
- Establish system-level strategies for enhancing patient-centered care of diabetes.
This education was made possible thanks to funding by Abbott Diabetes Care, Inc.
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The AAFP has reviewed AAFP TIPS: Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM): Enhancing Diabetes Care, Workflows, Education, and Payment and deemed it acceptable for up to 4.25 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credit. Term of Approval is from 2/2/2024 to 2/2/2026. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The AAFP is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Academy of Family Physicians designates this Enduring Materials for a maximum of 4.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
CME activities approved for AAFP credit are recognized by the AOA as equivalent to AOA Category 2 credit.