A new plan that would make improvements in how Medicare pays kidney dialysis centers to more efficiently deliver services to Medicare beneficiaries with end stage renal disease issued to Congress on February 20 has drawn strong support from the renal community.
The report, which was required by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), describes the steps to be taken by Congress to implement a fully bundled prospective payment system (PPS) for dialysis services. It was prepared by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
"The analysis lays a solid foundation to implement a more accurate payment system, which would ...