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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently finalized the End-Stage Renal Disease (“ESRD”) Treatment Choices Model (the “ETC Model”), which is a mandatory payment model intended to reduce Medicare expenditures by encouraging greater use of home dialysis and kidney transplants for patients with chronic kidney disease, while maintaining or improving the quality... READ MORE

On July 10, 2019, CMS issued proposed rulemaking titled Medicare Program; Specialty Care Models to Improve Quality of Care and Reduce Expenditures. The rule proposes to implement two new mandatory Medicare payment models – the Radiation Oncology Model and the End-Stage Renal Disease (“ESRD”) Treatment Choices Model. Comments on this proposed rule are due... READ MORE

On August 17, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a Memorandum to State Survey Agency Directors (QSO-18-24-ESRD) outlining additional survey activities that address dialysis services provided by an end-stage renal disease (“ESRD”) facility to residents in a long-term care facility. The survey process for evaluating home dialysis in nursing homes consists... READ MORE