The wait is over. Nearly a year after releasing the initial proposal and 1,500 comments later, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finally released the final rule on how dialysis will be reimbursed under a new “bundled” payment system. Its formal name is the End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payments System (ESRD PPS); many others would call it the biggest change to the ESRD program in decades. To find out more, please visit:
http://www.renalbusiness.com/articles/2010/06/esrd-market-basket-and-how-it-affects-you.aspx
The Final Rule on ESRD Reimbursement