Target Audience
This activity is intended for physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, certified diabetes educators and other interprofessional health care professionals.

Learning Objective
At the end of this activity, the attendees should be able to:

• Discuss how referral to a National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP) can benefit health care providers (HCPs) and patients.
• Examine types of referrals.
• Discuss best practices in referring to a National DPP and how to make the process as seamless as possible.
• Discuss how to overcome barriers to referrals.
• Discuss reimbursement.
• Define a bi-directional referral system and provide examples of the implementation of this system.

Accreditation Statements

In support of improving patient care, the American Diabetes Association is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.0 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

Pharmacists: The Universal Activity Number is: JA4008193-0000-19-042-H01-P.

Physician Assistants

The American Diabetes Association has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.

Dietitians

The American Diabetes Association is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).  Registered dietitians (RDs) and dietetic technicians, registered (DTRs) will receive 1.0 continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for completion of this program/material. Activity Number: 151865

Certified Diabetes Educators

To satisfy the requirement for renewal of certification by continuing education for the National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators (NCBDE), continuing education activities must be diabetes related and approved by a provider on the NCBDE List of Approved Providers (www.ncbde.org). NCBDE does not approve continuing education. The American Diabetes Association is on the NCBDE List of Approved Providers.

Successful Completion Statement
Certificates are provided to registered participants based completion of the activity, in its entirety, and the online evaluation. For questions regarding continuing education, please email professionaleducation@diabetes.org

Dates of Validity
Release date: October 1, 2019
Valid through: December 31, 2021

Please note:

• There is no fee for CE credits for this activity.
• Estimated time to participate in this activity and complete documentation is 1 hour.

Content Validation Statements
All recommendations involving clinical medicine are based on evidence accepted within the profession of medicine as adequate justification for their indications and contraindications in the care of patients; 

AND/OR

All scientific research referred to or reported in support or justification of a patient care recommendation conforms to generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis.

Presenter

Joy Dugan, DHSc, MPH, PA-C
Touro University California
Vallejo, CA

Jay H. Shubrook, DO FAAFP, FACOFP, BC-ADM
Touro University California
Vallejo, CA

Panelists

Kamaria Mason, MS, MPH, RD, LDN
Full on Faith Nutrition
Raleigh, NC

Brent A. Wilson, RD/LD, CDE
INTEGRIS Health
Oklahoma City, OK