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Medicare Payment Changes to Support Innovation and Home Dialysis

As requested by community advocates, Medicare IS expanding the transitional add-on payment adjustment for new and innovative equipmen... [Read More]
Posted 11/12/2020
7th Annual Kidney Patient Summit Went Virtual

Advocates representing nearly all 50 states shared their stories and urged their Congressional delegations to support public policy t... [Read More]
Posted 10/12/2020
TEPNIEs Brings New Technology to Home Dialysis

NKF strongly supports TPNIES. For too long, dialysis patients have not had access to the kind of advances in medical science and tec... [Read More]
Posted 10/12/2020

Maryland Opens First Residential Onsite Dialysis Center

Lorien Healthcare, a family-owned and operating assisted living, residential services, and nursing home company with nine facilities ... [Read More]
Posted 11/12/2020
Joanne Bargman MD on the Top 5 Mistakes in Prescribing PD

Wrongly prescribing PD can make the option burdensome instead of flexible. Joanne M. Bargman MD, Professor of Medicine at the Univer... [Read More]
Posted 11/12/2020
Tailoring Home HD Training Is Key

Flexibility, adapting to different learning styles, and individualizing training to meet the needs of patients and their partners are... [Read More]
Posted 11/12/2020

Baxter’s Theranova Dialyzer Debuts

Dialysis Care Center (DCC) Evergreen Park is the first location in the U.S. where Baxter’s Theranova, a novel dialyzer designed to ... [Read More]
Posted 11/12/2020
CVS Health Announces New CEO

Karen S. Lynch will become the new President and CEO, effective February 1, 2021, for CVS health, a division of CVS which announced i... [Read More]
Posted 11/12/2020
Redsense Rocks

All of the five largest dialysis care providers, including 8,000 receiving home hemodialysis, are now using the Redsense Alarm as a p... [Read More]
Posted 10/12/2020

Documentary on Home Dialysis and COVID-19

Season 2, Episode 4 of “the New Normal,” a brief online documentary series, focuses on the value of home dialysis during a pandem... [Read More]
Posted 11/12/2020
PD Is Coming to Rajasthan, India Free of Charge

Thousands of dialysis patients in Jaipur India will soon have the choice of free PD at home if they have a suitable room, not just in... [Read More]
Posted 11/12/2020
KidneyTalk: Transitioning to Home Dialysis

In an RSN KidneyTalk podcast, Michelle Pace, a Kidney Care Advocate at Fresenius talks about the benefits of transitioning from in-ce... [Read More]
Posted 10/12/2020

New Drug for Dialysis-related Itching

Itching is a form of pain, and dialysis-related itching affects up to 40% of people on dialysis—with no approved treatment. Vifor ... [Read More]
Posted 11/12/2020
Diality Raises $12.5M for its Portable Home HD System

Expected to be flexible, easy to use, and portable, the pipeline Diality machine has obtained development support in a Series B inves... [Read More]
Posted 11/12/2020
Quanta: a David to Dialysis Industry Goliaths

Standard HD is burdensome, costly, labor-intensive, and has poor outcomes, and patients want more autonomy and flexibility. Enter Qu... [Read More]
Posted 10/12/2020