Blogs

23 Aug

Press Release: Renesan and Visonex Merge and Secure Majority Investment Led by The Brydon Group

Renesan and Visonex, two leading providers of innovative, cloud-based software for dialysis clinics across the U.S., today announced a strategic combination of their businesses that will offer customers a...

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21 Nov

US Renal Data System 2020 Annual Data Report

US Renal Data System 2020 Annual Data Report shows 30-day hospital readmission rates of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients in comparison to other populations. For patients over 66 there...

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18 Oct

Update machine interface technology

Dialysis has had a long history of paper or manual documentation. The typical Dialysis facility was had dedicated areas of paper storage constituted by charts, files, notebooks, calculators and...

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16 Aug

News topics related to the dialysis industry

News topics related to the dialysis industry seem to range from focusing on therapy options, to changes in regulations, changes in submission of information and most recently reviewing the...

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24 Jun

Dialysis in a Skilled Nursing Facility

Skilled Nursing Facilities are often sought out by family members or patients who have chronic illness or for focused areas of rehabilitation. These short or long term stay facilities...

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12 Apr

Potential Solutions to Common Kidney Transplant Obstacles

A recent study on Improving Access to Kidney Transplantation published in Kidney Me Volume 3, Issue 5 in September/October 2021 Edition, identified barriers as expressed from both Transplant Centers...

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12 Mar

Can Self-Dialysis help solve staffing issues?

The Medicare Benefit Policy Manual for ESRD, Chapter 11, defines Self-Dialysis in section 10 as: “Dialysis performed by an ESRD patient in-facility with the expectation that the patient performs...

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02 Mar

How can an ultra-filtration calculator help your facility thrive?

ESRD QIP Measures for 2022 continues the reporting requirement for UFR.  Understanding the guidelines for this reporting measure is only the beginning.  Educating patients, training staff, and creating an...

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08 Feb

Dialysis Billing Transformation

In the last ten years, dialysis billing, revenue and quality metrics have changed greatly. Beginning in 2011, dialysis payments from Medicare became a bundled payment. This change was to...

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11 Jan

Tablo Dialysis: TPNIES and Home Therapies

The latest Tablo dialysis Transitional Payment for New and Innovative Equipment and Supplies (TPNIES) add-on begins in January 2022. Information is available for clinics by visiting CMS TPNIES Information....

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