Medscape

End-Stage Renal Disease Payment Model Falls Short of Goals

The End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices (ETC) model, a pay-for-performance program introduced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) to improve kidney outcomes, did not ...
STAT

Medicare is using one of its biggest hammers to try to fix the dialysis system: how providers are paid

Chronic kidney disease, already a problem affecting millions of Americans, is only expected to become more prevalent as the country ages. For those with end-stage disease, a transplant is the ideal ...
Medical Xpress

Conservative care vs. dialysis: Model shows which is better for individual advanced chronic kidney disease patients

It can be challenging to identify which patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) will most benefit from conservative care rather than initiating dialysis. "This new risk prediction tool was ...
Healio

Despite financial incentives, no growth seen for home dialysis, transplant in ESRD model

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . No changes in home dialysis or transplant rates were seen in the ESRD Treatment Choices model after 2 years. The ...