American Hospital Association May 8, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services May 8 released a proposed rule for the Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model, a new payment model that would test whether performance-based incentives or penalties for participating transplant hospitals would increase access to kidney transplants for patients with end-stage renal disease, while preserving or enhancing quality of care, improving equitable access to kidney transplant care, and reducing Medicare expenditures. The model would run for six years, beginning Jan. 1, 2025. Hospitals eligible for participation would include non-pediatric transplant facilities conducting at least 11 kidney transplants during a three-year baseline period. It is anticipated that 90 hospitals would be required to participate. The agency states that the model would align with the Department of...
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