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 & Tips to Increase the Use of PD and Home Hemodialysis (HHD)
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There is no need to put a patient with limited insurance on in-center dialysis and wait 3 months for them to get Medicare.
Published on 04/27/2017 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Understanding Concepts in Dialysate Flow
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A recent thread of posts at the Home Dialysis Central FaceBook site contained a couple of erroneous comments that suggested some underlying misconceptions I couldn't resist addressing.
Published on 04/20/2017 by Dr. John Agar
PD and Home HD: Dialyzor-to-Dialyzor Tips for Newbies
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Recently, members of our Facebook group shared their own tips for succeeding with PD or home HD.
Published on 04/12/2017 by Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
The Fistula: A Feisty Lifeline to Longevity
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This article summarises an online discussion on "needle spacing and angle/direction of needle entry, and will be of interest to those of us committed to ladder cannulation."
Published on 04/06/2017 by Ant de Villiers
The Devil is in the Details: A Tale of Dialysis Claim Errors
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I learned that the phone reps for insurance companies and health care providers can be dead wrong, and to document each phone call with the person’s name, date/time of call, and write down word for word what they said.
Published on 03/23/2017 by Catherine Ridings, Ph.D.