Regulatory & Legal

Should dying emergency room patients be sources for kidney (and other) transplants so others can live?Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian Hospital and Allegheny General Hospital have received a $321,000 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to help answer this question. “Obtaining organs from emergency room patients has long been considered off-limits in the United ...

WASHINGTON—Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., have introduced bipartisan legislation to extend immunosuppressive drug coverage for kidney transplant patients. The Comprehensive Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Transplant Patients Act would assist thousands of Americans under the age of 65 who are being cut off from Medicare payments for drug therapy after 36 months by extending ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a list of technical experts that will serves on a number of panels to develop new quality measures for the End-Stage Renal Disease Program.Click HERE for the list of names (scroll to the bottom of the page).CMS is contracting with the Arbor Research Collaborative for Health and the University of Michigan ...

This year’s World Kidney Day, which is on March 11, focuses on the worldwide explosion of diabetes and hypertension and how it’s affecting the growing number of kidney disease and dialysis patients.“As developing countries become increasingly urbanized, they are adopting the unhealthy lifestyles that promote diabetes and high blood pressure, the leading causes of kidney disease,” CNN wrote in a ...

You may not be aware that the dialysis providers will have a one-time option to choose how fast to switch over to being reimbursed based on the new bundle. Not making an informed decision could hurt your bottom line. What and When?These are the questions commonly faced by every healthcare professional on a day-to-day basis. However, when faced with a ...