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HRD-81-21 1 (1980-10-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbhg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: %0L m c 5pVali .2 ;.Vr'sof speicOC PY ,1sTR|CTED - ;40 ot o c ...th O I' o p . ... IKs - ,or :_ except On tratiollss Accounting ofi . ,onal GAO by the o100 @1 pongiro United States General Accounting Office 1(LEASE Human Resources Washington, DC 20548 Division B-198957 October 23, 1980 The Honorable H. John Heinz III United States Senate111111 Dear Senator Heinz: 113927 Subject: Feeral Diabetes Activitie HRD-81-21) This is in response to your request that we review Federal efforts to implenment the National Diabetes Mellitus Research a d Education Act) (Public Law 93-354) and later diabetes leg- islation. In discussions with you, we agreed to concentrate on reviewing diabetes programs of two organizations of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): 1/ the Na- tional Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC). We also agreed to look at mechanisms to co- ordinate the various Federal and non-Federal efforts to over- come diabetes and the extent to which health insurance plans cover certain services provided to diabetics. On June 19, 1980, we briefed your office on the status of Federal diabetes efforts. The information we presented was an eaboration of the items discussed in our June 4, 1979, interim rport to you (HRD-79-90). Your office asked that we report to you the results of our work as presented during the briefing. Accordingly, the enclosures contain information on: --The objective, scope, and methodology of our review (enc. I). --Biomedical research involving diabetes, including a description of diabetes and its impact, the Federal response to the need for diabetes research, NIH efforts to solve data collection problems, and recent research advances (enc. II). I/On May 4, 1980, a separate Department of Education commenced operating. Before that date, activities discussed in this report were the responsibility of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. (103940)

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