Renal Business Today: Features/Columns

What Nephrologists Should Know About Non-Compete Agreements

A non-compete is a little like a pre-nuptial agreement. The euphoria of union can, over a period of time, be replaced by painful and acrimonious separation. If a business relationship ends, a non-compete dictates how the parties must behave after the breakup. In both cases, ...More

November 23, 2011

Posted in Articles, Business, Practice Management

New Buzzwords 'Reduce Medicine to Economics'

Physicians who once only grappled with learning the language of medicine must now also cope with a healthcare world that has turned hospitals into factories and reduced clinical encounters to economic transactions, according to two Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ...More

November 9, 2011

Posted in Articles, Business

What to Expect from the ESRD Quality Incentive Program

In this article, the focus will be on the ESRD QIP. There were 88 public comments received on the QIP, and the final QIP rule reflects important changes relative to the proposed rule. The greatest changes in the QIP will be for payment year 2014 ...More

November 4, 2011

Posted in Articles, Business, Government & Regulation, Practice Management

Taking Hemodialysis Home Safely

All home hemodialysis patients should prepare for local disasters including adverse weather, home fires, earthquakes and epidemics ...More

November 1, 2011

Posted in Articles, Practice Management

CMS Proposes to Ease ESRD Federal Fire Code Rules

WASHINGTON—Medicare is proposing to ease federal fire safety regulations after finding the extra structural requirements would impose large costs on already fire-safe dialysis facilities ...More

October 19, 2011 By Keith Chartier

Posted in Articles, Government & Regulation, Practice Management

Home Hemo Patients Respond to NEJM Study

In late September, a study in the New England Journal of Medicine found the number of event rates were higher the day after a long interval between dialysis suggesting a benefit of more frequent dialysis.To better understand how people using dialysis felt, RBT asked two ...More

October 12, 2011

Posted in Articles, Practice Management

NRAA Unveils CROWNWeb Batch Submission Tool

NEW ORLEANS—The National Renal Administrator Association (NRAA) unveiled on Oct. 6 the specifics behind its plan to help small- and medium-sized dialysis organizations batch submit their data to CROWNWeb. ...More

October 6, 2011

Posted in Articles, Business, Practice Management

NRAA Honors Barry Straube with Award

NEW ORLEANS—Former Medicare chief medical officer Barry Straube, MD, was awarded the National Renal Administrators Association (NRAA) Mark Zawiski Award on Oct. 6 at the NRAA annual meeting. ...More

October 6, 2011

Posted in Articles, Business

NRAA Names New Executive Director

NEW ORLEANS—The National Renal Administrators Association has named Marc Chow to be the organization’s new, full-time executive director. ...More

October 6, 2011

Posted in Articles, Business

Rising Towards Nurse Leadership

To retain nurses and remain viable in today’s healthcare industry requires true nursing leadership skills to create and sustain the environment needed for success. ...More

September 28, 2011

Posted in Articles, Practice Management

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