Policy and Politics News

ORLANDO —Use of the 2021 Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration eGFR formula may lead to incorrect classification of Black living kidney donors as having CKD, according to data presented here.

Following the deemed consent legislation for organ donations passed in some providences of Canada, researchers explored public opinion and found a call for transparency and communication from the government.

The American Kidney Fund announced its support for the signing of S.B. 301, a law that utilizes tax credit incentives for living organ and bone marrow donors and their employers, in Delaware.

U.S. Reps. Ami Bera, MD, D-Cali., and Larry Bucshon, MD, R-Ind., have introduced legislation that would stop planned cuts in Medicare payments to physicians in 2023.

Although progress has been made, undocumented immigrants with kidney failure are underserved and in desperate need of care, according to a presenter at Innovations in Dialysis: Expediting Advances Symposium.

Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance grilled leaders of the United Network for Organ Sharing during a recent congressional hearing on poor management of the nation’s organ supply.

Due to a highly consolidated market, large dialysis providers charge Medicare Advantage plans 27% more for dialysis services than what is charged for Medicare.

CMS has released a proposed rule for the 2023 Physician Fee Schedule with some mix results for nephrologists, according to the Renal Physician Association.

U.S. Supreme Court justices made a “narrow” interpretation of Medicare’s Secondary Payer provision when ruling against DaVita Inc. in a case about how group health plans pay for dialysis care, the company CEO told investors.

Several kidney organizations have spoken out against the recent overruling of Marietta Memorial Hospital Employee Benefit Health Plan v. DaVita by the U.S. Supreme Court.