{"id":20545,"date":"2022-11-21T08:57:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T13:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20545"},"modified":"2022-11-21T08:57:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T13:57:34","slug":"medicare-is-using-one-of-its-biggest-hammers-to-try-to-fix-the-dialysis-system-how-providers-are-paid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20545","title":{"rendered":"Medicare is using one of its biggest hammers to try to fix the dialysis system: how providers are paid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Isabella Cueto for StatNews on September 19, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chronic kidney disease, already a problem affecting\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/kidneydisease\/publications-resources\/ckd-national-facts.html\" target=\"_blank\">millions of Americans<\/a>, is only expected to become more prevalent as the country ages. For those with end-stage disease, a transplant is the ideal treatment, but dialysis is their reality. Hundreds of thousands of Americans flock to clinics three times a week to have their blood filtered through \u2014 in the absence of a functioning kidney \u2014 a machine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/09\/19\/medicare-is-using-one-of-its-biggest-hammers-to-try-to-fix-the-dialysis-system-how-providers-are-paid\/\">&#8230;here<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"210\" class=\"wp-image-7810\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-medicare-patient-hospital-bed.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-medicare-patient-hospital-bed.jpg 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/medical-medicare-patient-hospital-bed-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Isabella Cueto for StatNews on September 19, 2022 Chronic kidney disease, already a problem affecting\u00a0millions of Americans, is only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17,12],"tags":[114,127,94],"class_list":["post-20545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-emerging-health-issues","category-health-care-general","tag-dialysis","tag-kidney-disease","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20546,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20545\/revisions\/20546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}