Dialysis Patients Mobilize to Stop the MACs

Last month, we asked for a FLOOD of letters to the MACs and CMS to protest a new proposed policy that would severely limit access to more than 3 chronic HD treatments per week—and you came through! We hear that CMS has received more than 1100 letters—and there may still be time to add yours.

KidneyViews Blog Topics:

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• MEI’s Response to the MACs: Daily Home Hemodialysis is Not Done for “Convenience”
  12/07 – Dori Schatell, MS, Executive Director, Medical Education Institute
• The Modality Mayhem of Modern Dialysis
  12/01 – Dr. John Agar
• "Thanks for the Giving"
  11/23 – Amy Staples
• October 15-December 7 Is Medicare’s Annual Enrollment Period for Parts C & D
  11/15 – Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW

Pipeline Technology

• Baxter Theranova: More Middle Molecules, Less Albumin Loss
• Surgery-free Dialysis Fistulas on the Horizon

Home Dialysis in the News

• UK Camper Vans Introduce PD
• Visually Impaired Couple Succeed with Home HD

Advocacy for Better Dialysis

• Dialysis PATIENTS Act: Yea.
• Dialysis PATIENTS Act: Nay

What's New in Home Dialysis Research

Each month, we gather recent research abstracts about home dialysis. Visit our Journal Watch to learn more:

• In-hospital Patient Education Helps “Crash” Dialysis Starts to Consider PD
• Olive Oil Polyphenols and Peritoneal Fibrosis
• Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF) and Residual Kidney Function in PD
• New UK PD Guidelines
• Survival in Those Eligible for BOTH PD or Standard In-center HD
• Who Matters Most for Modality Choice: Clinicians or Patients?

Featured Link: Home Dialysis Coverage Maps

Want to know where in the US it currently is and is not possible to get PD, daily home HD, and nocturnal home HD? You can find the updated information right here, from our database--and feel free to do screenshots and use the images as slides—or start new programs to fill geographic gaps.