An advocacy group wants CMS to update regulations to allow dialysis machine manufacturers and non-nursing personnel to provide home dialysis training.
The changes, detailed in a position paper released by Innovate Kidney Care (IKC), are directed at the Conditions for Coverage, a set of federal rules dialysis providers must follow to receive Medicare reimbursement for patient care.
CMS last revised the regulations in 2008.
Members of IKC include health plans and dialysis equipment manufacturers, as well as the National Kidney Foundation and the American Society of Nephrology.
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