Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The demonstration project aims to increase kidney transplants by limiting discarded organs and encouraging ...

The End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices (ETC) model, a pay-for-performance program introduced by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) to improve kidney outcomes, did not ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The federal value-based Kidney Care Choices model for kidney disease is now in year 4. Result from year 1 show ...

The model aims to increase kidney transplants, improve care quality, and reduce disparities nationwide, involving 103 hospitals in diverse regions. Hospitals are incentivized to perform more ...

Each day in the United States an average of 13 people will die waiting for a kidney transplant. But the potential to save these individuals is possible with better use of donated organs and more ...

Following our original publication on April 23, 2026, we have had numerous conversations with stakeholders, nephrology practices, industry associations and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid ...

Three of the four tracks within the Kidney Care Choices Model will be extended one year. (Getty Images/Rasi Bhadramani) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center announced ...

New Orleans — A public-private project, the Early Measures in Black and African-American Communities to Raise Kidney Disease (EMBARK) Awareness initiative, is helping to identify people at high risk ...