Fierce Healthcare
Op-ed: Medicare payment reform needed to support innovation in kidney care
Imagine being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness—only to learn that your doctor is limited to using treatments and tools from the 2000s instead of more advanced therapies. That’s exactly what’s happening to patients with kidney disease today. While treatments in other advanced disease states, such as cancer and heart disease, are improving at an exponential…
Inside Health Policy
Medicare Outpatient Hospital, ESRD Treatment Pay Rules Sent To OMB
Federal rulemaking is continuing despite the on-going government shutdown, which has now led to new reductions in force, with the White House Office of Management and Budget receiving several health care rules since Oct. 1, including the Medicare pay rules for outpatient care and end-stage renal disease treatment and a rule on drug pricing. Click here…