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Provider Digest | Volume 58

Date: 11/22/22

Diabetes Awareness Month: Hemoglobin A1c Control

When your patients have diabetes, it’s important to help them keep their blood sugar levels within their target range in order to help prevent or delay long-term serious health conditions such as heart disease, vision loss, and kidney disease. This can help improve your patients’ energy and mood as well. Below is information about the “Hemoglobin A1c Control” metric and some resources to help guide your efforts.

Hemoglobin A1c Control - For Patients With Diabetes (HBD) 

  • Members 18–75 years of age with diabetes (type 1 and type 2).

Measure Compliance:

  • Accepted test names: A1c, HbA1c, HgbA1c, Hemoglobin A1c, Glycohemoglobin A1c, Glycohemoglobin, Glycated hemoglobin, Glycosylated hemoglobin.
  • Test must be the most recent during the measurement year.
  • Medicare result value limits must be (≤ 9%). 
  • Medicaid result value limits must be (< 8%). 
    • A distinct numeric result is required, not ranges or thresholds. 

Patient Materials and Resources from the CDC:

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Help Increase Access to Care: Take the Survey Today!

Trillium is committed to partnering with you to support culturally competent care for our members. To help increase access to care for Oregon Health Plan members, please take the Provider Health Equity & Technology Survey today! We use your feedback to:

  • Better serve you and our members
  • Inform our community health equity initiatives
  • Develop provider resources to help improve access to care and health outcomes

The survey takes approximately 10 minutes to complete. Your responses are due by 12/31/22.

Thank you for your participation. If you have any questions, please reach out to your Provider Relations Representative or call Provider Services at 1-877-600-5472.

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2023 AEP for Wellcare By Health Net and Wellcare By Trillium Advantage

The 2023 Medicare Annual Enrollment Period is here! You may remember that last year we combined our multiple brands under the Wellcare name to offer a better range of Medicare plans that provide members with affordable access to doctors, nurses, specialists and facilities. To ensure your patients know that you accept Wellcare, please update your website and other materials with the Wellcare brand name.

For more information about Wellcare, download these helpful resources:

If you have any questions:

Thank you for your partnership in helping our members stay healthy.

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Oregon Behavioral Health Loan Repayment Program

Oregon Health Authority's Behavioral Health Loan Repayment program provides tax-free grants to supplement the behavioral health workforce in underrepresented and underserved areas of Oregon.

Qualified participants will receive tax-free grants to repay qualifying undergraduate and post-graduate loan debt.

Applicants must be currently employed in behavioral health care. For more information on eligibility, visit the Behavioral Health Workforce Initiative web page.

Applicants are encouraged to apply as early as possible to allow time for follow-up requests from OHA.

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Safer Suicide Care Webinar: Caring for the Healers Part III: Preventing Suicide in Healthcare Professionals & Staff

Healthcare professionals are significantly more likely to end their lives by suicide than the general population. The COVID-19 pandemic and other events have only exacerbated the stress, moral injury, and fatigue already felt by many healthcare professionals balancing caring for patients with concerns for their own wellbeing. And when healers end their lives by suicide, these tragic incidences can also have a “ripple effect,” increasing the vulnerability of other professionals, patients, and family members.

Join our webinar to understand the dynamics of the crisis and learn concrete strategies to help support primary care providers and teams, address suicide risk and prevent deaths by suicide in staff, and implement effective postvention strategies. This training will also provide tips from the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved on how organizations can self-assess their readiness to prevent and respond to provider suicide.

This webinar is made possible by the generous support of the Centene Corporation and draws from resources developed by ACU in partnership with Concert Health.

  • 12/8/22
  • 10-11 a.m.
  • Presenter: Dr. Virna Little, PSyD, LCSW-r, SAP, CCM, Chief Clinical Officer and Co-Founder of Concert Health, Co-Founder of Zero Overdose
  • Register here

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