Dialysis Centers to Get $220 Million Medicare Payment Bump

Medicare payments to freestanding dialysis centers will increase an estimated 2.5% in 2022 while hospital-based facilities will see a 3.3% payment bump, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported Friday.

The increases announced in the final payment rule (RIN 0938-AU39) will hike Medicare payments by $220 million next year, while total program spending will increase by $290 million for dialysis patients with kidney failure, or end-stage renal disease (ESRD).

Medicare beneficiaries who receive dialysis treatments will see their coinsurance payments increase by an estimated 2.5%, or roughly $60 million, next year.

The final payment rates were more than double ...