Dialysis Provider Shuts Five Centers in D.C. Area; Lack of Government Cash Cited; More Closures Likely
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A spokesperson for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said in a statement that the pandemic forced the agency to temporarily suspend or delay inspections for non-urgent complaints and routine inspections to focus on infection control and critical concerns that placed patients in immediate jeo...
Chronic hemodialysis patients hospitalized with COVID-19-short-term outcomes in Bronx, New York. Kidney360. 2020;1(8):755-762. doi:10.34067/KID.0003672020Google ScholarCrossref 35. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Evaluation of potential prevalent comorbidity adjustments: standardized ...
"We're working hard to help keep dialysis patients treating safely in our centers and out of the hospital to reduce the burden on the system," Jeff Giullian, chief medical officer for DaVita Kidney Care, said in astatementopens in a new tab or windowregarding access to COVID-19 care fo...
But I think the landscape is different in free-standing centers where the case mix is predominately AV access, and the bal- ance between cost and reimbursement determines physician payment as well as survival of the center. I worry that in this scenario, reimbursement may indeed impact the ...
Efforts to increase advance care planning (ACP) for patients with serious illness are growing, including reimbursement introduced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in 2016. ACP is especially important for older patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) because they face difficul...
We will use mixed-effects linear and logistic regression models to predict changes in continuous PA levels and probability of achieving PA recommendations by regressing study arm, study centers, and an interaction between study arm*centers. The mixed model will include one random effect term ...
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In the morning, his wife, Norma, cleans the area around his catheter, applies a gauze bandage and tapes an 18-inch extender attached to the catheter to his chest. He could do this himself, Reynolds said, but "I wanted her to have some part in all this." ...