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CMS levied fines for poor performance in the first year of its End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices model against dialysis clinics with higher proportions of patients at social risk, a recently published study shows.

Healio has compiled a list of its most-read nephrology care news in 2023.

Healio has compiled a list of the most-read nephrology cover stories in 2023.

Healio has compiled a list of its most-read policy and politics news in nephrology for 2023. 

U.S. Rep. Greg F. Murphy, MD, R-N.C., has introduced legislation that would eliminate a planned 3%-plus cut in Medicare physician payments starting Jan. 1, 2024.

CMS has released a final rule for the prospective payment system that increases the Medicare bundled payment rate for dialysis treatments by 2.1% in 2024, up from a 1.6% increase proposed in June.

Several members of Congress are questioning whether innovation in kidney care is being hampered by the Medicare bundled payment rate for end-stage kidney disease treatment.

Citing overuse and high costs, CMS is defending a change in coverage for a blood test used by specialists to help determine whether a transplanted organ may be failing.

President Joe Biden signed the Securing the U.S. Organ Procurement Transplantation Network Act into law, according to a statement from the National Kidney Foundation.

A report released by CMS on first-year results for the End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices model showed no Medicare cost savings but an increase in patients on the waitlist for transplant and trained for home dialysis.