The world is experiencing a hidden epidemic with kidney disease. More than 850 million people worldwide have some form of ...

Chronic kidney disease has a variety of causes, ranging from immune system problems to medication side effects ...

The current kidney care model—focused on late-stage disease and in-center hemodialysis—is unsustainable, because of costs, environmental burden, poor outcomes, and reduced quality of life.

The End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices model provided critical lessons about financial incentives and access to care ...

On May 8, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) model: a six-year mandatory payment model designed to expand equitable ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The federal value-based Kidney Care Choices model for kidney disease is now in year 4. Result from year 1 show ...

Experts at a recent Institute for Value-Based Medicine event emphasized the importance of early intervention, policy innovation, and proactive collaboration to transform the management of kidney ...

A few years ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched a big experiment. The agency wanted to see if financial incentives and penalties would improve care for people with end-stage ...

In its continuing efforts to improve the organ donation and transplant system and promote health equity, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Centers for Medicare ...

Chronic kidney disease affects millions of Canadians, yet it rarely commands the public attention given to other chronic ...