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Kidney Care Partners (KCP)

CMS Eliminates Transition Adjuster

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has done away with the bundle’s transition adjuster, according to an announcement from Kidney Care Partners (KCP). ...More
April 1, 2011
Posted in Blog, Government & Regulation
KCP Appoints Fresenius Exec to be Chairman

WASHINGTON—Kidney Care Partners (KCP) has named Fresenius executive Ron Kuerbitz as its new chairman for the 2011-2012 term. ...More
January 20, 2011
Posted in News, Business
Renal Organizations Create Anemia Resource for Patients

WASHINGTON—A number of influential renal organizations have banded together to create an anemia education resource that will be made available at no charge to kidney patients and their physicians. ...More
July 27, 2010
Posted in News, Practice Management
U.S. Renal Community Responds to Haiti's Emergency Dialysis Need

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—In the wake of an earthquake that has devastated this Caribbean country, the U.S. kidney community has mobilized with the collection of millions of dollars as well as dialysis equipment, medications, supplies and clinical staff to assist in providing ...More
January 19, 2010
Posted in News, Business, Practice Management
Kidney Care Partners Bundling Testimony at CMS Town Hall

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November 11, 2009
Posted in Articles, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation
KCP Plans to Cut First-Year Dialysis Mortality by 20 Percent

WASHINGTON—Every year a new U.S. Renal Data System report is released, the renal community is reminded of the persistent high-mortality rate for kidney disease patients in the first year of dialysis. ...More
June 5, 2009
Posted in Articles, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation
Surviving Future Vascular Access Reimbursement Reductions

Beginning in 2007, vascular access reimbursement rates have experienced significant reduction with more proposed in 2010. ...More
June 2, 2009
Posted in Articles, Business, Clinical & Pharma, Government & Regulation, Practice Management
CMS Not Enacting Vascular Access Code Changes

WASHINGTON—The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have not enacted coding edits that would have changed how certain vascular access procedures are billed. ...More
April 10, 2009
Posted in News, Business, Clinical & Pharma
How the next president could affect dialysis

On Jan. 20, 2009, The 44th President of the United States will inherit a country at a crossroads. The confluence of the Iraq War, sluggish unemployment and the housing crisis is expected to continue into next year, and nearly 46 million people still don’t have health ...More
September 30, 2008
Posted in Articles, Business, Government & Regulation
Louisiana dialysis caregivers and volunteers brace for Hurricane Gustav

NEW ORLEANS—The Gulf Coast region is bracing to avoid a potential healthcare crisis as Hurricane Gustav nears, threatening to disrupt the administration of area patients' lifesaving dialysis treatments. ...More
August 29, 2008
Posted in News, Business