Nephrology News and Issues | September 14, 2022
Authors: Eric Weinhandl
Background:
Remarkably, more than 3 years have passed since the release of the executive order on the HHS initiative Advancing American Kidney Health. That order, signed on July 10, 2019, focused energy on several domains, including home dialysis, and was punctuated by release of a preliminary version of the End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices (ETC) payment model. However, as uniquely exciting as that executive order was, it is also reasonable to characterize that day as another bronze plaque on the long journey to wider utilization of home dialysis.