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CMS Proposes Devastating Cuts to Dialysis Payments
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CMS Proposes Devastating Cuts to Dialysis Payments

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:08:57+00:00July 19th, 2013|Categories: Article, Dialysis Funding, Take Action|

URGENT: Protect your dialysis care! Urge your Members of Congress to prevent a kidney care crisis! The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) just released a regulation that proposes to reduce Medicare funding for dialysis treatments by 9.4%. The American Taxpayers Relief Act (the fiscal cliff deal) mandated CMS to adjust the price it pays for dialysis to reflect the recent change in usage of certain anemia management drugs. However, no one in the kidney community expected CMS to propose such a dramatic and potentially devastating cut. Please take a few moments to express your outrage to your Members of [...]

DPC Joins Kidney Community in Requesting Meeting with CMS on ESCOs

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:08:58+00:00June 26th, 2013|Categories: Care Coordination, Comment Letter, Innovation|

Dear Ms. Tavenner and Dr. Gilfillan: On behalf of the undersigned organizations, thank you for your leadership of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). Together, our organizations represent the patients, physicians, nurses, scientists, and other health professionals dedicated to advancing excellence in the care of patients with kidney disease. Foremost among our shared goals is continuous improvement in the quality, efficiency, and accessibility of care available to patients with kidney disease. Our organizations applaud the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the CMS Innovation Center’s establishment of [...]

DPC Thanks CMS for Reducing Transition Adjuster to Zero

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:08:58+00:00June 1st, 2013|Categories: Comment Letter, Dialysis Funding|

DPC Comments on ESRD Quality Measures

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:08:58+00:00May 2nd, 2013|Categories: Comment Letter, Quality Incentive Program|

DPC Urges CMS that Payment Adjustments to ERSD Does not Jeopardize Life Saving Dialysis Treatments for Those With ESRD

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:08:58+00:00April 15th, 2013|Categories: Comment Letter, Dialysis Funding|

DPC Comments on Anemia Management in the QIP

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:08:59+00:00March 26th, 2013|Categories: Comment Letter, Quality Incentive Program|

Update: Dialysis Care Coordination Moves Forward!

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:08:59+00:00March 19th, 2013|Categories: Blog, Care Coordination, Innovation|

By Jessica N., Director of Public Affairs As I highlighted last fall, DPC has been busy working with other kidney community organizations and the federal government on a new and improved way to provide care to dialysis patients. As part of recent health care reform efforts, Medicare has been developing new ways to coordinate care for various patient groups and they just came out with their dialysis specific program! Medicare, or more specifically the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), released the official blueprint for this new program, which they have called the Comprehensive ESRD Care Initiative. The initiative is [...]

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