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CMS issued a final rule increasing the End-stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System base rate to dialysis facilities by about 2.7% to $273.82 beginning Jan. 1, 2025, according to an agency press release.

SAN DIEGO — In this video exclusive from ASN Kidney Week, Healio | Nephrology News & Issues Editorial Board Member Sheila Deziel, MSN, RN, CNN, FNKF, discusses issues facing dialysis nurses.

SAN DIEGO — In this video exclusive from ASN Kidney Week, Darcy K. Weidemann, MD, MHS, FAAP, a pediatric nephrologist at Children’s Mercy in Kansas City, Missouri, discusses her top concerns in the specialty: access and workforce.

SAN DIEGO — Help with transportation, copays and treatment adherence were the top three needs affecting health care according to a group of patients participating in a lupus navigator pilot program.

SAN DIEGO — In this video exclusive from ASN Kidney Week, Jeffrey Giullian, MD, MBA, FASN, chief medical officer of DaVita, discusses three pressing regulatory issues for nephrology stakeholders.

“The historic underfunding of the ESRD payment system has created disincentives for the development of new drugs, biologicals, devices and innovative treatment options ... ”

In the movie Steel Magnolias, actor Julia Roberts plays Shelby, a young patient with diabetic kidney disease torn between her desire to be a mother and the reality of pregnancy pushing her into a life on dialysis.

Patients with HIV in need of a kidney or liver transplant may no longer be required to participate in a clinical study to receive an organ from a donor with HIV, according to a proposed federal rule change published in the Federal Register.

The 2024 election is one of the most consequential elections in recent history, and as physicians, we have a responsibility to vote.