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SAN DIEGO — Researchers reported a sudden decrease in all-cause hospitalization at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there was an increase in all-cause mortality in patients on maintenance dialysis.

There may be a nonlinear connection between platelet count and 30-day in-hospital mortality in patients with end-stage kidney disease in the ICU, according to researchers.

A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would require private health plans to continue to pay for dialysis for beneficiaries with end-stage kidney disease while they coordinate a transition to Medicare coverage.

Ardelyx Inc. is leading a lawsuit against CMS about plans by the agency to include oral-only phosphate-lowering therapies into the End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System by January 2025.

In 2019, former President Donald Trump signed the Advancing American Kidney Health initiative.

A bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would slow efforts by commercial health plans from moving patients with end-stage kidney disease to Medicare now has 30 co-sponsors, according to a press release.

PHILADELPHIA — Geographic disparities and barriers to transplant access exist among patients with end-stage renal disease on dialysis, according to presented data.

In its biannual report to Congress, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommended that payments to physicians should increase but a planned 1.8% boost in the bundled payment rate for dialysis services was adequate for 2025.

Adults with obesity and end-stage renal disease may qualify as kidney transplant candidates, according to a joint study between a bariatric and transplant surgery team.

Donor nephrectomy in living kidney donors aged 70 years or older is safe and does not significantly impact eGFR or the risk of end-stage renal disease, recently published data show.