CMS Proposed Rule for Dialysis Payment Includes Home Dialysis for AKI (CMS-1805-P)

CMS proposes to let patients with acute kidney injury train and do home dialysis. The rule would increase payment by 2.2% to $273.20 and change payment adjustments and the quality incentive program. CMS is seeking comments on a health equity measure by August 26, 2024.

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• Thriving Against the Odds: My Journey with Home Hemodialysis
  07/11 – Brandie Jackson
• I dialysed on the NxStage portable dialysis machine!
  07/03 – Kamal Shah
• Stephen Hewitt: Paying it Forward
  06/27 – Stephen Hewitt
• Medicare Advantage: Is The Name Accurate—or Misleading?
  06/20 – Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW
• The Human Cost of Failing to Match Dialysis Modalities to Patient Values
  06/13 – Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute

Pipeline Technology

• Global Wearable Artificial Kidney Market Expected to Grow

Home Dialysis in the News

• ETC Model Structure Did Not Move the Needle on Home Dialysis with Social Risk Factors

Living Well with Home Treatments

• Podcast Dx Interviews Home HD patient and Care Partner
• Total Dialysis: A New Channel by a Home HD Patient for Patients

Industry Updates

• Death of Cannulation Expert, Educator and Home Dialysis Champion, Stuart Mott

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

Each month, we gather recent research abstracts about home dialysis. Visit our Journal Watch to learn more:

• Which is Safer: Urgent Start HD or Urgent Start PD?
• A U.S. Staff-assisted PD Program
• A Validated Measure to Predict PD Technique Failure
• Startling Proportion of Patients Chose PD or Home HD After a Dialysis Start Unit

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