Insights on Issues & Trends that Impact Investments in Healthcare & Life Science Businesses
The Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has consistently stated that it does not anticipate approving specialty accountable care organizations. Thus it is no surprise that CMS has been reluctant to call the new ESRD Seamless Care Organization (ESCO) a "renal ACO" or "renal…
Continue Reading CMS Announces ESRD Comprensive Care Initiative
We have discussed in several prior posts the conversion to the Medicare bundled payment system for dialysis facilities which began January 1, 2011. Dialysis facilities had the option of either opting in fully to the new system starting this year or…
Continue Reading Two Key Updates in the Dialysis Bundled Payment System
U. S. dialysis providers are completing their final analyses this week as the November 1st deadline to fully opt in to the new Medicare bundling reimbursement methodology approaches. Pursuant to the new bundling rule released on July 23, 2010, providers who…
On July 23rd, at the same time that it released the final rule relating to the new bundled payment methodology for renal dialysis providers, CMS issued a proposed rule that would create a new Quality Incentive Program (QIP) …
Yesterday, CMS issued a release regarding the much anticipated final rule laying out the new bundled prospective payment system (PPS) for renal dialysis facilities. The rule itself was published on July 23, 2010. Under the new PPS, CMS will make a single bundled …
Continue Reading CMS Issues Long Awaited Bundling Rule for Renal Dialysis Providers
On Wednesday, March 12th, McGuireWoods hosted our 8th Annual Business & Legal Issues in Dialysis & Nephrology Symposium. Leaders from various perspectives in the industry provided presentations and lead discussions on a wide array of topics, including the …
Continue Reading Key Issues re Investment in the Dialysis Industry
As physicians face the reality of consolidation in certain segments of the healthcare industry, rising costs such as the costs of malpractice coverage, the tangible and intangible costs of administering a private practice and the critical importance of power in the …
The U.S. dialysis industry includes more than 4,000 outpatient dialysis facilities (in addition to a large number of home dialysis programs) that service more than 350,000 patients suffering from end stage renal disease (ESRD). The industry self-classifies dialysis companies as …
