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Renal BizBlog – Keith Chartier
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Renal Business Todays editor Keith Chartier is a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. Prior to joining Virgo Publishing in 2006, he covered the renal industry as editor for more than two years. |
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04/09/2012
HHS Proposes 1-Year Delay to ICD-10The ongoing saga to implement ICD-10 in the United States took a more definitive turn today when HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced in a press release a proposed compliance date of Oct. 1, 2014. |
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03/22/2012
CROWNWeb Extends Phase 3 Through April 20The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said on March 22 that it has extended the Phase 3 pilot through April 20—and additional four weeks—to give dialysis facilities more time to complete QIMS registration ahead of the national release. |
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03/12/2012
ESRD MSP Applies to Health Insurance ExchangesThe Obama Administration has clarified that the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) provision will apply to end-stage renal disease patients who are enrolled in small group plans within the health insurance exchanges that are being formed under healthcare reform. |
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12/16/2011
Dialysis Medicare Margins TighteningMedicare margins for dialysis clinics fell for all providers in 2010, but they were much tighter for rural clinics and clinics not affiliated with DaVita or Fresenius. |
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12/15/2011
QIP Performance Scores to be PostedDialysis clinics should be notified by Dec. 15 about their 2012 Performance Score Certificates (PSC), which must be posted in each facility in clear view of patients and caregivers. |
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12/07/2011
FDA Panel Votes in Favor of Affymax Anemia DrugA federal panel has voted 15-1 in favor of recommending the FDA approval of Affymax's anemia drug peginesatide, according to a Dec. 7 report from the San Francisco Business Times. |
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11/30/2011
HHS Extends a Meaningful Use Deadline to 2014Buried in a Nov. 30 press release, HHS announced they would be extending a stage 2 meaningful use deadline to 2014 in order to encourage adoption. |
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11/03/2011
CMS, NRAA to Start Testing HIE SystemThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Renal Administrators Association (NRAA) have started to test its health information exchange (HIE) that will allow all dialysis providers to batch submit their data to CROWNWeb, according to a Nov. 2 post on the Project CROWNWeb website. |
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10/19/2011
ESRD Population Grows, EPO Use DecreasesThe latest numbers from the U.S. Renal Data System (USRDS) have been released and they show an every-growing patient population and downward trend in the use of erythropoietin-stimulating agents (ESAs) ... |
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10/12/2011
ASN Abstracts, USRDS Report ReleasedInformation junkies have their hands full this week with the release of two major nephrology-related items. |
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