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Subcommittee chair urges Medicare payment reforms to spur kidney‑care innovation
Summary
At a House Ways and Means subcommittee hearing, the subcommittee chair outlined the human and fiscal toll of chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease and urged changes to Medicare payment policy to encourage prevention, treatments and new devices.
The subcommittee chair opened a House Ways and Means subcommittee hearing to press for changes to Medicare payment policy aimed at preventing chronic kidney disease and improving outcomes for people with end-stage renal disease, saying, "We must modernize Medicare coverage to better prevent and treat kidney disease as well as improve patients' outcomes."
The chair framed kidney disease as both a public‑health and fiscal problem. Citing prevalence and outcomes, the chair said "15…
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