Kidney Care Community Warning: Proposed Medicare Cuts for Dialysis Care Would Impede Quality Progress



Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Kidney Care Partners (KCP) — an alliance of patient advocates, dialysis professionals, care providers and manufacturers working together to improve quality of care for individuals with kidney disease and kidney failure — today warned that proposed cuts to Medicare’s End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) benefit, which pays for care for more than 300,000 Medicare beneficiaries with kidney failure, …

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