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Kidney Care Partners is a non-profit coalition of more than 30 organizations, comprising patients, dialysis professionals, physicians, nurses, researchers, therapeutic innovators, transplant coordinators, and manufacturers.

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Kidney Community Urges Congress to Pass Bipartisan Restore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act to Protect Insurance Access for Individuals Living with Kidney Failure

KCP applauds Representatives Mike Kelly (R-PA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Neal Dunn, MD (R-FL), Danny Davis (D-IL), John Joyce, MD (R-PA) and Raul Ruiz, MD (D-CA) for introducing the bipartisan Restore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act (H.R. 6860).

If passed, this bill would restore the intent of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSPA) Congress adopted 40 years ago, to protect individuals with end-stage renal disease (ERSD), or kidney failure, from group health plan discrimination.

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More than 97K Americans are currently waiting for a kidney transplant.

More than 500K Americans are currently on dialysis.

More than 700K Americans are living with kidney failure (ESRD).

More than 130K Americans are diagnosed with kidney failure each year.

Approximately 37M Americans are living with chronic kidney disease.

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We Need to Act Earlier to Address the Silent Crisis of Kidney Disease, Inadequate Federal Support

Scientia potentia est. sounds complicated, but when translated, “knowledge is power” rings true for many aspects of life, particularly when it comes to managing one’s health. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is the gradual loss of kidney function with few, if any, symptoms. Many of the 1 in 3 adults who are at risk for CKD have no idea…

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Senate bill would require health plans to continue dialysis coverage for 30 months

A bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would require private health plans to continue to pay for dialysis for beneficiaries with end-stage kidney disease while they coordinate a transition to Medicare coverage. Click here to see the full article.

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Nation’s Kidney Community Commends Senate Introduction of Restore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act

WASHINGTON – Kidney Care Partners (KCP)- the nation’s largest non-profit, non-partisan kidney care coalition dedicated to protecting care access and comprised of more than 30 organizations, including patients, dialysis professionals, physicians, nurses, researchers, therapeutic innovators, transplant coordinators, and manufacturers – today applauded Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM), for introducing…

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Latest from the KCP Blog

The Kidney Care Quality Roadmap: Key Insights from the 2024 CMS Quality Conference

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently held its annual 2024 CMS Quality Conference in Baltimore, Maryland and KCP was represented at the conference by Reid Kiser, Founding Partner of Kiser Health Solutions, LLC. Kiser assumed leadership of the coalition’s quality related work earlier this year and will…

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Medicare ESRD PPS Proposed Rule: What You Need to Know

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the proposed End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Prospective Payment System (PPS) rule for renal dialysis services for Calendar Year 2024. This proposed rule is expected to give providers a 1.6% reimbursement increase, which is significantly lower than the inflationary increases providers…

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