KidneyViews
Welcome to the non-profit Medical Education Institute's Home Dialysis Central blogspot! This page is an umbrella under which Home Dialysis Central staff and guests can share their perspectives about home therapies and what we need to do to raise their profile and enable more people to use them. We'd like your comments as well! Bookmark our site and like us on Facebook! Help us tell the world about home dialysis.
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Medicare May Be Better than a Marketplace Health Plan
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The Biden Administration re-opened enrollment from February 15-May 15, 2021. This is a good thing for people who do not have and cannot get health insurance any other way.
Published on 03/18/2021 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’,
Saying No to a Kidney Transplant
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Saying No to a Kidney Transplant
Published on 12/03/2020 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’,
The End Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices Model Includes In-center Self Care
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On July 10 2019 President Donald Trump signed the Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health, which directed the Department of Health & Human Services to develop a reimbursement model to incentivize use of home dialysis and transplant.
Published on 11/12/2020 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: How dialysis works, Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’,
Dialysis Success: What’s in a Word?
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Recently, I have noticed a lot of discouraging posts from members of the Facebook dialysis support groups. People are frustrated with their treatments, dialysis machines, even their lives.
Published on 10/01/2020 by Nieltje Gedney
Tags: How dialysis works, Making dialysis better, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Patient Risks with Insurance Choices: Information for Social Workers
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Health insurance choices in the United States are very complex. I described insurance options for people with kidney failure in a recent blog entitled Insurance 101 for Dialysis Social Worker.
Published on 09/03/2020 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Making dialysis better, Education issues: for patients and professionals, Choosing the right path through ‘The System’, Other ‘cool stuff’ to help understand dialysis better,