Doctors will have new financial incentives to prescribe in-home dialysis and look for kidney transplant options under a new Medicare payment model announced Friday.
The End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices Model is designed to steer Medicare patients into cheaper, more convenient home dialysis treatments and to improve patient outcomes.
The mandatory model builds on President Donald Trump’s Advancing Kidney Health Executive Order that calls for a revamp of the nation’s organ transplant system, including efforts to increase organ donations and shorten wait times for transplants.
The new payment model is expected to help cut Medicare spending for kidney disease care, ...
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