Medicare and Medicaid

New findings from A. Ishani and co-authors describe advances in medicare and medicaid

Published in Drug Week, August 28th, 2009

According to recent research from the United States, "The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services (CMS) proposes to change the method of reimbursement for outpatient hemodialysis such that a fixed payment bundle will cover both outpatient dialysis therapy and injectable medications. The proposal does not include an adjustment for race, although this is up for debate."

"We aimed to determine if African Americans, compared with whites, continue to initiate dialysis with lower hemoglobin concentrations and require higher doses of erythropoiesis stimulating agents (ESA) to achieve similar hemoglobin concentrations, as they have historically. We constructed a cohort of...

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Source: Drug Week (2009-08-28)

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