March 16, 2007 — The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN)/United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Kidney Transplantation Committee is developing a kidney-allocation model that ...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is on the rise in the United States, with roughly 36 million adults estimated to have the ...
With an estimated 37 million Americans affected by chronic kidney disease, Medicare has launched the Comprehensive Kidney Care Contracting (CKCC) model, spotlighting the importance of proactive, ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center announced Monday it is extending three tracks within the Kidney Care Choices (KCC) Model through 2027. Starting in performance year ...
Researchers at The Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have developed a new electronic medical records-based tool that should ...
In 1972, Congress – moved by the plight of patients dying from lack of access to dialysis – approved comprehensive health care coverage through Medicare for people living with End-Stage Renal Disease ...
A few years ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched a big experiment. The agency wanted to see if financial incentives and penalties would improve care for people with end-stage ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A Bay Area research team is being awarded a major prize for a device they hope will someday free kidney patients from dialysis. For thousands of kidney patients in the U.S., the ...
Vol. 57, No. 2, SPECIAL REVIEW SERIES ON 3D ORGANOTYPIC AND ORGANOID CULTURE MODELS (FEBRUARY 2021), pp. 133-147 (15 pages) The human kidney, which consists of up to 2 million nephrons, is critical ...