Health Payer Intelligence November 22, 2023
Innovative and comprehensive chronic kidney disease coverage presents an opportunity to lower healthcare spending in the US.
Efforts to improve chronic kidney disease coverage have evolved over the last several decades, but the disease remains costly and prevalent.
Around 15 percent of the adult population in the US has chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to the National Kidney Foundation (NKF). The condition is one of two that, in its final stages, can make individuals eligible for Medicare regardless of age due in part to the history of poor outcomes in this patient population.
Years after an end-stage renal disease (ESRD) diagnosis made patients eligible for Medicare coverage, CKD has become a major testing ground for value-based care innovation.
“Many early...
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