Regulatory & Legal

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 ...

DEERFIELD, Ill.—U.S. Food and Drug Administration has classified Baxter's recent Urgent Product Recall of the HomeChoice and HomeChoice Pro peritoneal dialysis cyclers as a Class I recall because of the risk of serious injury or patient death, Baxter said in a March 3 news release.The recall of the PD cyclers is due to increased intraperitoneal volume (IIPV), or overfill of ...

NEW YORK—Helping patients make informed choices about their own health is the rationale behind the new Medicare pre-dialysis education benefit, and the National Kidney Foundation has developed a comprehensive curriculum to assist professionals in providing this patient education. NKF’s newest program, “Your Treatment, Your Choice” was designed to meet CMS guidelines for reimbursement under the Medicare Improvements for Patients and ...