The new frontier: delivering cost-effective DM to rural populations.
It generally costs more to reach patients in outlying areas, but some pioneering organizations are getting around this barrier and, in fact, saving dollars by providing better care and preventive services to the chronically ill. Find out how two organizations have successfully addressed this challenge in dramatically different ways.
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