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Imagine the patient who doesn’t come to your practice until he is very ill. The sad part? His condition could have been prevented if he had come in for regular preventive care. Compliance audits can be viewed in the same way. Practices that bill for services without taking the time to check to see if what they’re doing is right are running the same risk as a patient who doesn’t see his or her physician for preventive care services. They’re gambling that everything is OK. That is, untilMore...
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It’s clear nutrition for dialysis patients is on the national radar, so Renal Business Today wanted to ask leaders in the renal community their thoughts about the current state of renal nutrition care and what their respective organizations are doing on a daily basis to improve the lives of dialysis patients. More...
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Have you ever met someone for the first time who just has “it,” someone who effortlessly constructs his or her words and is able to burn a message or an idea in your mind so you never forget it? Some people are born with it, but most of us, unfortunately, are not. Researchers have spent years trying to learn what makes us click with some people and feel frustrated when talking to other people. The goal is to shed light on the components of communication that occur at the unconscious level so weMore...
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As our planet’s population continues to grow, so does the sustainable growth rate of the dialysis patient population. The dialysis patient population growth annual rate is now expected to be 6 percent, making it a 4 million patient population by 2025. As the number of patients on dialysis continues to grow, so does the amount of natural resources consumed and waste produced by dialysis facilities. More...
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Advances in medical technology have often been implicated as a cause of rising healthcare expenditures. The Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease program has placed dialysis providers under cost-control pressure for a quarter of a century and provides near-universal coverage. Because the number of treatments per patient is essentially fixed but dialysis facilities have substantial discretion over how to deliver the treatment, this system enables the adoption of new technologies for cost savings inMore...
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