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.
Act Now to Protect Healthcare for Americans with Kidney Disease!
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Major health care reform in the U.S. right now could affect YOU. In fact, the Senate may vote as early as this week on its “Better Care Reconciliation Act” (BCRA).
Published on 06/27/2017 by Dr. Teri Browne
Tags: Choosing the right path through ‘The System’ , Education issues: for patients and professionals,
Billing for Home Dialysis Travel and Helping Patients to Plan
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Patients may be concerned about how dialysis while traveling is billed. When home patients (PD or home HD) travel, the home clinic pays for home dialysis supplies and bills Medicare and/or other insurance as if the patient is doing his/her dialysis
Published on 06/22/2017 by Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
Tags: Education issues: for patients and professionals, travel,
Vlog Day: A Home HD Treatment Step by Step
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Tami Ramsey, a nurse who does home HD herself, has been kind enough to let us point you to her YouTube video of doing a home HD treatment with NxStage.
Published on 06/01/2017 by Tami Ramsey, RN
Kidney Patient Education: A Lost Art, or Just Rarely Seen?
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Patient education and teaching is a vital cog in good care...and the word is out that we could do a whole lot better.
Published on 05/18/2017 by Dr. John Agar
A Primer on Haemodialysis “Weight”
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What is weight, as it matters to a dialysis patient?
Published on 05/04/2017 by Dr. John Agar