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Advocacy for Better Dialysis
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Nevada Opens Medigap to Under 65s with Medicare Due to ESRD or Disability
The Nevada governor signed SB 292, which takes effect on 10/1/2025.... [Read More]
Posted 06/11/2025 -
Ask your Members of Congress to Help More Patients Access Home Dialysis.
A bill called “Improving Access to Home Dialysis” was introduced in the last session of Congress. NKF says to share with your ele... [Read More]
Posted 05/20/2025 -
Expanding Care in the Home Act (H.R. 2853)
This bill would authorize Medicare payment for staff-assisted home dialysis, home infusion services and lab specimen mailing costs, a... [Read More]
Posted 01/13/2025
Home Dialysis in the News
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Meet Dana and Andrew Flamenbaum
Both have Type I diabetes, started in-center HD, and now are on PD hoping for living donor kidney transplants.... [Read More]
Posted 08/21/2025 -
Top 10 U.S. Cities for Access to Dialysis
Is your city is listed? Among urban clinics, 50.8% offer PD, 28.5% offer home HD and 16% have late in-center shifts. Rural patients... [Read More]
Posted 08/21/2025 -
Ukrainian PD Patients Get Help to Run Cyclers When Power is Out
In Ukraine, of 10,708 patients with severe kidney disease, 206 are on APD and 400 on CAPD. This article shares stories of Larissa, Ma... [Read More]
Posted 05/20/2025
Industry Updates
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Encore: Clinical Overview of 90966 Home Dialysis Discusses the CPT Code
This 48-minute video by WPS Government Services for CMS discusses a high error rate for this code for the provider’s monthly capita... [Read More]
Posted 07/16/2025 -
Dr. Brent Miller Presents on Home HD
See his talk on “Home Hemodialysis: Where we are, where we have been and where we are going.”... [Read More]
Posted 07/16/2025 -
Vantive Invests $1B in ShareSource Remote Monitoring
The former Baxter company will investigate how to improve outcomes and team efficiency with the Sharesource remote patient management... [Read More]
Posted 06/11/2025
Living Well with Home Treatments
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DialysisNurseNick Gives CAPD Tips Based on Questions from His Patients
Nick mentions checking for edema, determining dry weight, and how to do CAPD.... [Read More]
Posted 08/21/2025 -
Gerald Folse Gets His Life Back with Home Dialysis
The Folses wanted freedom and have been doing home dialysis for 5 years.... [Read More]
Posted 08/21/2025 -
Learn the Benefits of Nocturnal home HD
A short video discusses the benefits of 6-8 hours of dialysis overnight while sleeping.... [Read More]
Posted 08/21/2025
Pipeline Technology
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Fresenius Shares 5 Ways Artificial intelligence is Helping Dialysis Care
Learn how AI is reducing short and long-term PD interruptions, risk of access failure, and hospitalizations; informing a device to mo... [Read More]
Posted 08/21/2025 -
HD with Saline and No Blood Thinner?
Macaulay Onuigbo at the University of Vermont describes a prototype HD dialyzer rotator that may make blood thinners a thing of the p... [Read More]
Posted 06/11/2025 -
AWAK is now Singapore-based Vivance
The wearable Viva Kompact dialysis device has an infection management system and makes dialysate from tap water. It’s small, lightw... [Read More]
Posted 05/20/2025