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This bill aims to improve access to diabetes outpatient self-management training services under Medicare. The key provisions include: 1. Expanding the eligibility for these services to include qualified nonphysician practitioners, in addition to physicians, to manage an individual's diabetic condition. It also increases the number of covered training hours from an initial 10 hours to 10 hours initially, plus up to 2 hours per year. 2. Eliminating the requirement for beneficiaries to have a referral for medical nutrition therapy services related to their diabetes and aligning the cost-sharing for these services to be 100% covered by Medicare. 3. Directing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to test a model for providing virtual diabetes outpatient self-management training services, with the goal of improving health outcomes and reducing Medicare expenditures. The overall goal of this bill is to enhance access to and utilization of diabetes self-management training services for Medicare beneficiaries, including through the use of virtual platforms, in order to better manage their condition and improve health outcomes.

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