Nephrology News

Physicians treating Medicare patients are staring down the barrel of five consecutive years of cuts to their reimbursement rates.

LAS VEGAS — The CMS End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices model was designed to offer optimal care while cutting Medicare expenses, but policy may not always have the intended effect, according to a speaker.

It has been 5 years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced many providers to embrace telehealth.

Most pediatric transplant recipients who received live-attenuated viral vaccines after transplant developed protective antibodies that persisted for up to a year after vaccination with no significant safety events, researchers found.

Senators questioned Mehmet Oz, MD, MBA, on Medicaid budget cuts, nursing shortages and his prior claims about miracle drugs during a committee hearing to be the next administrator of CMS.

For kidney transplant recipients with type 2 diabetes, use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists was associated with improved long-term graft survival and overall survival, according to study data.

Investing in bonds may seem boring and not sexy like buying individual stocks, but bonds help provide diversification and stability to one’s portfolio.

The United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions voted to advance the nominations of probable new NIH and FDA leaders to the full senate.

The White House withdrew the nomination of David Weldon, MD, to be CDC director on Thursday morning, just hours before he was to appear before a Senate committee.