ESRD Medical Evidence Form (CMS 2728), which is included in the REMIS data (eAppendix in the Supplement) The CMS 2728 form provides evidence of a diagnosis of ESRD for Medicare eligibility and “demographic and diagnostic information for all new ESRD patients regardless of Medicare entitlement.”...
Importance Before 2021, most Medicare beneficiaries with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) were unable to enroll in private Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. The 21st Century Cures Act permitted these beneficiaries to enroll in MA plans effective January 2021. Objective To examine changes in MA enrollment...
To finance a shift from emergent-only to scheduled hemodialysis for undocumented patients would require policy change at the federal, state, or local level given this population’s exclusion from the Medicare entitlement. At present, EMTALA requires hospitals to perform a medical screening of all pat...
Methods: Patient records for all adults who received a renal transplant with Medicare as primary payer between 1995 and 2002 were obtained from the United States Renal Data System (USRDS). Patients were followed until the earlier of the last date of Medicare eligibility, graft failure, death or...
Notably profound declines in both deceased and living donor graft survival rates for black, compared with white and Hispanic, children preceded the 3-year mark when transplant Medicare eligibility ends. Further research is needed to identify the unique barriers to long-term graft success among black...
The USRDS has included all patients with ESKD in the United States since May 1995, because the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Program requires a Medicare Evidence form to be submitted for all patients regardless of their insurance and eligibility status. A complete de-identified dataset of ...
2020 Association of the Comprehensive End-Stage Renal Disease Care Model With Medicare Payments and Quality of Care for Beneficiaries With End-Stage Renal Disease Grecia Marrufo, PhD1; Erin Murphy Colligan, PhD2; Brighita Negrusa, PhD1; et al Darin Ullman, PhD1; Joe Messana, MD3; Anand ...
Original Medicare (Part A and B) Eligibility and Enrollment. http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Eligibility-and-Enrollment/OrigMedicarePartAB EligEnrol/index.html?redirect=/origmedicarepartabeligenrol/01_overview.asp. Accessed June 1, 2013. 35. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Medicare Covera...
Using Lee's two-stage binary logit model, dual-eligibility was found to be associated with an increased access to rHuEPO. Compared with their state-specific, dually eligible counterparts, the odds of receiving rHuEPO was lower for Medicare-entitled patients in California (odds ratio [OR], 0.84;...
2020 Association of the Comprehensive End-Stage Renal Disease Care Model With Medicare Payments and Quality of Care for Beneficiaries With End-Stage Renal Disease Grecia Marrufo, PhD1; Erin Murphy Colligan, PhD2; Brighita Negrusa, PhD1; et al Darin Ullman, PhD1; Joe Messa...