Restore Protections for Dialysis Patients Act Reaches 50 Cosponsors, Kidney Care Partners Calls for Additional Congressional Action
WASHINGTON – Kidney Care Partners (KCP) – the nation’s largest non-profit, non-partisan kidney care coalition dedicated to protecting access to care and comprised of more than 30 organizations, including patients, dialysis professionals, physicians, nurses, researchers, therapeutic innovators, transplant coordinators, and manufacturers – today thanks the 50 members of the U.S. House of Representatives who have signed…
CMS increases payment for dialysis facilities, includes oral-only drugs in the bundle
CMS issued a final rule increasing the End-stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System base rate to dialysis facilities by about 2.7% to $273.82 beginning Jan. 1, 2025, according to an agency press release. The final rate is higher than the 2.2% increase to $273.20 in the proposed rule circulated in July and up from the 2024 base…
Discount criticism of N.J. library protection bill | Letters
As a healthcare professional, it’s my duty to ensure that dialysis treatment – a life-sustaining procedure over 20,000 New Jerseyans living with kidney failure depend on – is as accessible and seamless as possible. For over 40 years, that job was made easier by a law that provided patients on dialysis with the option to…
ESRD Pay Rule Cements Oral-Only Drugs In Bundled Payment Despite Stakeholder Opposition
CMS on Friday (Nov. 1) finalized a plan to add oral-only drugs to its End-Stage Renal Disease bundled payment system despite stakeholders’ efforts to delay the policy, including legislation passed by the House Energy & Commerce Committee that would have excluded the drugs from the ESRD bundling for another two years. Click here to see the full…
Kidney Care Partners Supports Policies to Expand Home Dialysis and Improve Reimbursement for Phosphate-Lowering Drugs, Remains Concerned CMS Has Not Addressed Barriers to Patient Access to Innovative Treatments
WASHINGTON – Kidney Care Partners (KCP) – the nation’s leading kidney care multi-stakeholder coalition representing patient advocates, physician organizations, health professional groups, dialysis providers, researchers, and manufacturers – issued the following comments in response to the recently released final Calendar Year 2025 End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Prospective Payment System (PPS), Payment for Renal Dialysis Services…