"With today's action, we're making crucial progress on another core national priority-the fight against kidney disease", said President Trump. It would make it easier for living donors to give kidneys and other organs, promote the donation of organs from deceased people and restructure payment for health care providers to reduce the rate of kidney failure in the first place. A separate study will focus on the APOL1 gene, which frequently complicates transplants for African American patients. The Trump Administration is clearly aligned with CareDx in its mission to improve the long-term outcomes of kidney transplant patients.
"(The order) also creates an opportunity for nephrologists to get much more involved in the coordination of integrated care that will migrate economic wins away from joint venture dialysis centers".
"The longer you're on dialysis, the outcomes are worse", said Dr. Amit Tevar, a transplant surgeon at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, who praised the administration's initiatives.
Statement Attributable to Javier Rodriguez, CEO for DaVita Inc.: "DaVita is encouraged that this Administration has taken steps toward holistic, value-based care for kidney patients".
One of the proposed models includes efforts to incentivize in-home, or peritoneal, dialysis.
"It will happen. That'll happen", he said.
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He added, "They certainly seem hell bent to do to black and brown people today what the old Southern Democrats did [in] the 40s". She called Pelosi's comments "just outright disrespectful. the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color ".
These changes are being put in place through Medicare's innovation center, created under the Obama-era Affordable Care Act and empowered to seek savings and improved quality.
Mr Trump's wife, Melania, was hospitalised for several days in May 2018 to treat a benign kidney condition. 'If the law is invalidated, the Innovation Center, and all its authorities, would be eliminated, ' said Nicholas Bagley, a University of MI law professor. "It's very draining", said Alex Azar, Secretary of Health and Human Services. Boehler said an aunt died while on dialysis.
More than 37 million people suffer from chronic kidney disease and more than 726,000 have end-stage renal disease. The president also directed his administration to develop a process to deliver an artificial kidney to patients and increase the efficiency of the organ transplant system. Currently, their medical costs are covered but the president's plan would provide financial assistance to cover day care and time missed from work. "There is now a lack of accountability and wide variability among these organ procurement organizations", he said. But more than 700,000 people have end-stage renal disease, meaning their kidneys have failed, and require either a transplant or dialysis to survive. The policy would also help 11,000 more Americans get hearts, lungs and livers annually. Last year, there were 21,167 kidney transplants. "People with kidney disease deserve the best care and hope for a better life". "Doing this from the home is a dramatic long overdue reform, something people have been asking for, for many many years". We look forward to supporting solutions that allow more patients to receive a transplant. Just 12% of patients start treatment at home. 'It's great to be at home where I was more comfortable and more relaxed and the care was in my hands, ' she said in an interview at the Trump event.
"The way the system is set up, it's kind of pushing people towards dialysis", Seema Verma, head of the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in a phone interview. The goal is to get half of patients who need it using at-home dialysis within the next five years, up from the low teens now, he said. Costs are exorbitant and growing, and many patients aren't even told there may be other options.
The Trump administration on Wednesday set goals to move more kidney disease treatment into patients' homes and increase transplants while reducing the USA reliance on more costly dialysis clinics.
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