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U.S. Renal Care Settles Fraud Case

BALTIMORE—U.S. Renal Care has agreed to pay $7.3 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by a nurse that alleged a company U.S. Renal Care acquired, Dialysis Corporation of America (DCA), ...read more

Travel on Dialysis

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page,” said Augustine of Hippo. For many, travel provides an expanded world view and a great deal of joy. For many hemodialysis patients, travel seems ...read more

2013 RPA Meeting

If you missed the three-day, 2013 Renal Physician Association conference held in New Orleans, Renal Business Today was there and has the highlights available at your fingertips in the latest digital issue. Renal ...read more

Venous Needle Dislodgement

Venous needle dislodgement (VND) occurs when a venous needle dislodges from a patient's vascular access during hemodialysis treatment. This report discusses VND severity and presents best practices and other solutions to ...read more

A Recipe Guide to Lowering Salt Intake

Whether you are a kidney disease patient or a non-kidney patient, it is important to keep your kidneys as healthy as possible by following a low-sodium diet. Did you know that for a healthy individual over the age of 50, a ...read more

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Big Changes in ‘07?

The New Year is upon us and pundits and prognosticators around the nation are busy doing their best Nostradamus impersonations hoping to be the one who correctly predicts the most influential events of 2007. As this issue of Renal Business Today went to press, one of the ...More
December 27, 2006
Posted in Articles, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation, Practice Management
Technology in the Dialysis Clinic

Editor’s Note: This research was supported by a National Physical Science Consortium fellowship and Sandia National Laboratories/CA to K.A. Siek; by a NSF grant EIA-0202048; a grant by the Lilly Endowment to the Indiana University Computer Science Department; and by ...More
December 27, 2006
Posted in Articles, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
Demystifying Collections

Health care providers today face pressures to reduce or discount charges and everincreasing operating expenses. One way to achieve greater cost effectiveness is to properly manage health care receivables. For this reason, health care providers partner with companies that ...More
December 27, 2006
Posted in Articles, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
PENtech Infusions changes name to Pentec Health

BOOTHWYN, Pa.—Renal nutrition company PENtech Infusions has changed its name to Pentec Health to better reflect the company’s mission as a health care company, according to Pentec. “We are taking a fresh approach to renal nutrition–delivering clinically appropriate therapy ...More
December 27, 2006
Posted in Articles, Clinical & Pharma
AngioDynamics to buy Rita Medical for $220 million

QUEENSBURY, N.Y.—AngioDynamics Inc. said it will acquire oncology products manufacturer Rita Medical Systems Inc. for approximately $220 million and approximately $3.3 million in assumed debt. “The combination of AngioDynamics and Rita will create a leader in serving the ...More
December 27, 2006
Posted in Articles, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
CMS to Pay ASCs for fistula, graft surgery

WASHINGTON—Medicare will allow payments to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in 2007 for vascular access surgery used to maintain fistulas and grafts in hemodialysis patients, the government said. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said the procedures ...More
December 27, 2006
Posted in Articles, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation, Practice Management
Spotlight: Rockford Nephrology Associates

For every disease that threatens our health, doctors and scientists work tirelessly to develop a cure, but chronic kidney disease has no cure. And the specter of the dialysis chair is harsh reality many CKD patients must face. However, renal practices such as Illinois-based ...More
December 27, 2006
Posted in Articles, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
NxStage names new CFO

LAWRENCE, Mass.—NxStage Medical Inc. has appointed Robert S. Brown as the home dialysis machine manufacturer’s new chief financial officer. “We are pleased to have attracted an experienced player like Robert to our company at this exciting time in our development,” Jeff ...More
December 27, 2006
Posted in Articles, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Practice Management
Dialysis Corp. to develop Ohio dialysis center

LINTHICUM, Md.—Dialysis Corp. of America said it will develop a new facility in Ohio and has bought the majority interest in another Ohio clinic. The new facility will open in Delaware County, Ohio, through an affiliation with Riverside Nephrology Associates, a nephrology ...More
December 27, 2006
Posted in Articles, Business, Practice Management
MRSA vaccine shows promise in mouse study

CHICAGO--By combining the four bacterial surface proteins that generate the strongest immune response in mice, researchers at the University of Chicago have created a vaccine that significantly protects immunized animals from multiple disease-causing, drug-resistant strains ...More
December 27, 2006
Posted in Articles, Clinical & Pharma