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New NephSAP Issue - "Chronic Kidney Disease and Progression"

September 20, 2019

NephSAP Volume 18, Number 4, September 2019

Chronic Kidney Disease and Progression

ASN, the National Kidney Foundation, and the Renal Physicians Association Send Joint Response to CMS Regarding ESRD Treatment Choice Model

September 17, 2019

In a joint letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator (CMS) Seema Verma, ASN, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), and the Renal Physicians Association (RPA) laud the Trump administration for its “ambitious agenda for kidney health” and identify five principles the organizations state will lead to “better patient outcomes that should be supported in the proposed ETC Model.”

The following five principles are included in the organizations’ letter to CMS:

ASN Weighs in on ESRD Treatment Choice Model in Letter to CMS

September 17, 2019

Reducing the benchmark for the combined home dialysis and transplant rate and allowing for incremental achievement of the benchmark, incentivizing and investing wisely to ensure needed practice transformation, and delaying the start date of the ESRD Treatment Choice Model (ETC) until April 2020 are among the recommendations for adjustments to the model set forth in a letter sent to CMS Administrator Seema Verma on behalf of ASN and its members from President Mark E. Rosenberg, MD, FASN.

Patients Continue to Urge the Senate Support KidneyX Appropriations in New Al.com Op-ed

September 13, 2019

Following a recent letter to the editor in the Kansas City Star, kidney patients continue to urge their congressional representatives to support KidneyX during the Senate appropriations process.

Joint ASPN/ASN Statement sent to the House Oversight Committee criticizing the ending of the deferred medical action policy for immigrants

September 4, 2019

On Monday September 2nd, the Trump Administration announced a change to a policy that allowed immigrants to receive a temporary reprieve from deportation while receiving life-savings medical care in the US.

Advancing Nephrology: Division Leaders Advise ASN

August 26, 2019

Asserting the value of nephrology

Physician productivity and compensation

Financial support of educational effort

Recruitment, retention, diversity and inclusion

Ensuring that Nephrology fellowship programs provide quality training in all aspects of kidney care

ASN Policy Q&A on the Advancing American Kidney Health initiative: Part 2

August 25, 2019

In order to double the number of kidneys available for transplant by 2030, the Administration is looking to increase the utilization of available organs from both deceased and living donors in multiple ways including, but not limited to:...

ASN launches new initiative aiming to save lives of people suffering with acute kidney injury

August 20, 2019

Made possible by a grant from Baxter Healthcare Corporation, the effort called AKI!Now: Promoting Excellence in the Prevention and Treatment of Acute Kidney Injury, will aim to help people suffering from acute kidney injury (AKI).

ASN Policy Q&A on the Advancing American Kidney Health initiative: Part 1

August 19, 2019

The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Department of Policy and Public Affairs team has received numerous questions from interested members and from the broader kidney community on the recent Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health...

Diabetes and Kidney Disease 2019: August Special Section

August 8, 2019

Capture_title_0.PNGDiabetes is the second most common cause of kidney failure in the United States. Diabetic Kidney Disease (DKD) encompasses structural and functional abnormalities involving the kidneys. Clinically, these changes result in hypertension, proteinuria, and progressive decline in kidney function, ultimately leading to ESKD. Diabetic kidney disease accounts for more than 40% of all ESKD In the United States.

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