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Advocacy for Better Dialysis
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Expanding Care in the Home Act (H.R. 2853)
This bill would authorize Medicare payment for staff-assisted home dialysis, home infusion services and lab specimen mailing costs, a... [Read More]
Posted 01/13/2025 -
Improving Access to Home Dialysis Act of 2024 (H.R. 8075) Update
A bill to provide Medicare coverage for staff-assisted home dialysis has only 13 sponsors, but was referred to the House Ways & Means... [Read More]
Posted 01/13/2025 -
New Year, New President, New Congress: How Might These Changes Affect ESRD?
What We Know: Costs of prescribed formulary drugs for those with Medicare Part D is capped at $2000. C... [Read More]
Posted 01/13/2025
Home Dialysis in the News
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What is It Like to Be a PD Nurse?
DaVita RN, Cristina, describes what and how she teaches patients to be independent and how PD nurses at other clinics offer each othe... [Read More]
Posted 03/13/2025 -
Watch an ISPD Journal Club Webinar on Staff-assisted PD in the U.S.
Speakers discussed French data and a U.S. study of 66 patients in 16 clinics in Texas and California that offered up to 6 months of s... [Read More]
Posted 02/14/2025 -
NKF’s Complete Guide to Home Hemodialysis: Benefits, Challenges and Tips
Online guide includes a 35-minute podcast with a home HD patient and regional director of a home dialysis program, tips for how to st... [Read More]
Posted 02/14/2025
Industry Updates
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The National Kidney Foundation has Updated Two of its Home Dialysis Resources
Home Dialysis coveres the t... [Read More]
Posted 03/13/2025 -
See How Outset Medical is Bringing Home HD into Skilled Nursing Facilities
Learn about SNF dialysis trends and challenges, dialysis options, financial and operational benefits to a SNF of offering onsite dial... [Read More]
Posted 03/13/2025 -
Monogram Health Held a Home Dialysis Summit for its Clinicians
Speakers included CMO Dr. Shaminder Gupta and 2 PD and 2 home HD patients. This 3-minute video describes the summit and how Monogram ... [Read More]
Posted 03/13/2025
Living Well with Home Treatments
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Meet Monique: a PD Patient and PD Nurse
In a 27-minute video, Monique discusses the 2 hats she wears and tips to stay healthy.... [Read More]
Posted 03/13/2025 -
UK Patient Hosanna’s Lupus Journey Vlog Has 40 Videos
Here are two: Getting a PD catheter and starting PD. Hosanna shares her feelings about her cha... [Read More]
Posted 03/13/2025 -
Home Dialysis in a Nursing Home
This 3-minute video shares how this can be done to improve nursing home residents’ quality of life.... [Read More]
Posted 02/14/2025
Pipeline Technology
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Understand Sorbent Dialysis in 8 Minutes
Sorbent HD has been around for decades, but has not been widely used recently. Learn the advantages and challenges of sorbent and see... [Read More]
Posted 03/13/2025 -
Kidney Research UK Invests in a MicroBioSensor to Detect Peritonitis on PD
Early identification of PD peritonitis makes earlier treatment possible. A MicroBioSensor that detects white blood cells in PD efflue... [Read More]
Posted 02/14/2025 -
Tom Oostrom of the Dutch Kidney Foundation Shares NeXtkidney Updates
The Dutch Kidney Foundation initiated NeXtkidney, a carry-on-sized HD machine, in 2012. Outcomes of the first clinical trial were goo... [Read More]
Posted 02/14/2025