How can I set up my practice to use CGM devices?
Setting up CGM in your practice can seem daunting. This roadmap provides an overview.
Once your practice has decided to set up CGM as a part of your everyday workflow and patient care processes, the following steps will help you in implementing CGM. Select which stage of the process you are in, and you will be directed to relevant resources.
- Evaluate Equipment & Staffing: CGM requires specialized equipment and staff roles. Determining those needs at the beginning of the process will set you up for success.
- Select a CGM platform: Your choice of CGM platform, based on the platforms covered by Medicaid, will be a key early decision.
- Complete CGM Device Training: CGM platform manufacturers offer trainings and other support for practices.
- Design and Implement an Office Workflow: After a CGM platform is selected, inter-office processes must be constructed to start patients on CGM devices, monitor patients, and more.
- Engage Patients: Individual patients have unique needs and desires. Determining if they are ready to change their diabetes care with CGM is an important step.
- Prescribe CGM: A wide variety of care practitioners can prescribe CGM devices to patients. Taking full advantage of the available capacity can be a factor in CGM success.
- Train Patients on CGM Usage: CGM devices are designed to require minimal patient education. But resources are available when questions arise.
- Interpret Data and Adjust Care: Continuously reviewing and drawing conclusions based on patient data, and then adjusting diabetes care accordingly, is an important phase of CGM usage.
- Bill for CGM Services: Medicaid covers a wide range of CGM services. Learn which ones, and the appropriate billing codes, to receive compensation for using CGM.
Have additional questions? Ohio’s Medicaid Managed Care Plans are here to help.