By Miriam Lippel Blum There are 26 days left to make your comments to CMS regarding the proposed payment rules.  Make your voice heard!  It matters. Here are the CKD related blogs updated since my last report on 11/18. If you have or...

By Peter Laird, MD MIPPA legislation in 2008 mandated an expanded bundled payment system for Medicare dialysis patients. In doing so, the proposed rule will rely upon a higher base payment calculated to be about $198 with case mix adjusters to fill in...

By Bill Peckham The Senate put forward its version of health insurance reform on Wednesday, (here is the complete text of the HR 3590** the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). There does not appear to be a provision to extend...

By Miriam Lippel Blum There are 29 days left to make your comments to CMS regarding the proposed payment rules.  Make your voice heard!  It matters. Here are the CKD related blogs updated since my last report on 11/15. If you have or...

By Bill Given all the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth over Medicare's proposal to include oral drugs in the new expanded dialysis payment mandated by Congress, I expected a similar reaction to the ESRD section of the House health...