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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 ...

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 ...

Taking Positive Steps to Improve Home Dialysis, Transplant, and Patient Safety

Over the last few years, home dialysis, transplant access, and patient safety have emerged as major objectives of the Biden Administration. Yet, current quality performance measures used by federal regulators ...

Dozens of Healthcare Organizations Unite in Support of Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation to Prevent Discrimination & Ensure Insurance Access

In the decades since the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Benefit was established, the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have experienced kidney failure had the comfort of knowing that ...

Legal Protections for Living Organ Donors Are Increasing. But More Needs to Be Done.

There is newfound momentum for laws that protect living organ donors, with eight states enacting new legislation in the past several months. Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio and ...

KCP Members Head to Capitol Hill to Advocate for Improvements in Kidney Care

An estimated 37 million US adults – 1 in 7 – have chronic kidney disease (CKD), and 90 percent of them have no idea. Furthermore, having diabetes and/or heart disease ...

Prioritizing Mental Health for Individuals with Chronic Kidney Disease

Many studies have shown us that living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage renal disease (ESRD) can have adverse impacts on individuals’ mental health. Patients are already juggling ...

New Article Highlights Kidney Community’s Response to COVID

The COVID-19 pandemic may be far from over, but the way our community responded to the pandemic undoubtedly saved many lives. In a recent article for Fierce Healthcare, Drs. Brigitte Schiller ...

Mental Health Awareness Month: Kidney Disease and Mental Health

Those of us who work closely with kidney patients know all too well that kidney disease takes not only a serious physical toll, but for many people, it also has ...

The Importance of Patient Choice in Home Dialysis

Whether by carrot or by stick, the 2019 Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative (AAKHI) Executive Order and its associated voluntary (Kidney Care Choices) and mandatory (ESRD Treatment Choices) models incentivize ...

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Wednesday- October 5th
  • 11:00am- KCP Payment Work Group Call
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Wednesday- October 5th
  • 11:00am- KCP Payment Work Group Call
  • 1:15pm- KCP ELC
  • 3:30pm- KCP Virtual Membership
Wednesday- October 5th
  • 11:00am- KCP Payment Work Group Call
  • 1:15pm- KCP ELC
  • 3:30pm- KCP Virtual Membership

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