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ESRD Pay Rule Cements Oral-Only Drugs In Bundled Payment Despite Stakeholder Opposition
November 4, 2024
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.