Home Dialysis News

CMS has approved an add-on payment to dialysis facilities when they use Outset Medical Inc.’s Tablo Hemodialysis System, according to a press release.

During a recent panel discussion1 on advancing home dialysis, the moderator asked me to imagine what home dialysis might look like in 2030.

Osman Khawar, MD, remembers the home dialysis machines he worked with during his nephrology training at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.

At our home dialysis clinic at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, working on growth and sustainability of our home program has brought along successes, promising endeavors and insight into potential challenges.

For the hundreds of thousands of people living with kidney disease who rely on dialysis as a life-sustaining treatment, providing easier access to home therapy is essential.

Bipartisan legislation was introduced in Congress on Sept. 29 that would fund staff assistance for patients on home dialysis.

Fresenius Medical North America reports growth in the number of patients on home hemodialysis who utilize the company’s connected health platform, with adoption increasing more than 44% in the past year, according to a press release.

Survival rates were similar in patients who choose home hemodialysis vs. peritoneal dialysis, even with differences in age and number of comorbidities, according to a study published in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation.

Despite fewer comorbidities and access to pre-dialysis care, patients on peritoneal dialysis do not have lower mortality, hospitalizations or cost of care compared with those on in-center hemodialysis, a recently published study shows.

After finding that patients who received dialysis in-center had higher rates of COVID-19, researchers advocated for “a major shift” to home-based care as a means to reduce the risk for transmission of future infectious diseases.