Medicare
Strive Health expands partnership with Illinois nephrology group
Strive Health is expanding its relationship with Nephrology Associates of Northern Illinois and Indiana to help manage up to 20,000 patients with kidney disease, according to a company press release.
Medicare’s aggressive approach to CKD attracts providers, value-based care groups
Dialysis providers saw a change in the payment model for treating Medicare patients when CMS instituted the Prospective Payment System in 2011.
Comprehensive care program reduced racial disparities in readmission rates for THA, TKA
Results showed the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement program reduced racial disparities in readmission rates and Medicare payments for patients undergoing total joint arthroplasty; but, racial disparities in other outcomes persisted.
Strive Health partners with Evolent Care Partners
Medicare will only cover Aduhelm for patients enrolled in clinical trials
CMS announced that Medicare is limiting coverage of the controversial Alzheimer’s disease drug Aduhelm to participants who are enrolled in FDA- or NIH-approved clinical trials.
Nephrologists see regulatory, legislative wins, more work ahead
DALLAS — After uncertainty a year ago from a leadership void at HHS, nephrology practices and kidney research are seeing benefits from recent legislative and regulatory victories, according to a speaker at the Renal Physicians Association Annual Meeting.
Outpatient TKA yielded higher readmission rates in Medicare patients vs. inpatient TKA
CHICAGO — Medicare patients who underwent total knee arthroplasty classified as outpatients had higher readmissions and rates of discharge to nursing facilities than those who had surgery as inpatients, according to results presented here.
ANNA: Plan for non-nursing staff, industry to conduct home dialysis training ‘dangerous’
Access to high-volume TAVR operators varies widely across US
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement among Medicare beneficiaries grew rapidly from 2014 to 2018 with an expansion in TAVR operators, but more than one-third of operators are performing fewer than 10 procedures per year, data show.
Q&A: Use of ambulatory care rebounds, but at a lower rate for Medicaid beneficiaries
Between March 2020 and February 2021, the combined utilization of six ambulatory care services among U.S. adults fell, then came close to reaching expected rates, data show.