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Advising the Congress on Medicare issues
MedPAC > Recommendations > Improving Medicare’s end-stage renal disease prospective payment system (2)

Improving Medicare’s end-stage renal disease prospective payment system (2)

June 15, 2020

The Secretary should replace the current low-volume and rural payment adjustments in the end-stage renal disease prospective payment system with a single adjustment for dialysis facilities that are isolated and consistently have low volume, where low-volume criteria are empirically derived.

Appeared in: June 2020 - Chapter 7

Topics: Ambulatory care settings and Regional issues.