Skilled Nursing News September 18, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Friday announced the finalization of a new kidney-care payment rule, but the regulation specifically exempts patients who are receiving their dialysis treatment in the nursing home.
The End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Treatment Choices (ETC) Model is intended to test whether greater use of home dialysis and kidney transplantation for Medicare beneficiaries with ESRD can lower the program’s expenses while maintaining or improving their quality of care.
But it draws from a specific pool of beneficiaries: those receiving care from health care providers participating in the ETC model.
“In determining the home dialysis rate and the transplant waitlist rate and living donor transplant rate for participating ESRD facilities and Managing Clinicians for...
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