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RPA’s NCAP meets in DC to discuss legislation, more
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WASHINGTON – Leading nephrologists gathered in Washington over the weekend to attend the Renal Physicians Association’s Nephrology Coverage Advocacy Program meeting and discuss the potential impact of certain legislation with their Congressional representatives.
Michael Shapiro, MD, MBA, president of the Renal Physicians Association (RPA), called this year’s meeting “a great success and a lot of fun.”
“You are the people who care enough about your patients to want to learn more about the policies that effect your ability to take care of them effectively and to figure out what it takes to figure out what it takes to develop new policies and to advocate for the policies that we’re pushing because it makes a difference for our patients,” Lawrence Weisberg, MD, chair of the Nephrology Coverage Advocacy Program (NCAP), said during the meeting.
Weisberg also said that NCAP will now be called the RPA Policy Advocacy and Leadership Group and will now be known as RPA PAL.
Speakers went in depth on various issues and subjects that nephrologists are facing. Two panelists touched on how small nephrology clinics can survive and adapt in “the value-based world.” The potential impact of the Kidney Dialysis Patient Protection Act was discussed by two speakers from Ohio and California, two states that are currently seeing the effects of legislation on nephrology.
Other topics included local coverage determination, the states of integrated care models, the potential benefits of the National Clinical Care Commission Act on nephrology, and hierarchical condition coding. – by Jake Scott