Fierce Healthcare
Op-ed: Medicare payment reform needed to support innovation in kidney care
October 10, 2025
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 pace, generating hundreds of billions of dollars in new investment, kidney care innovations remain stuck in the past.