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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: plugger on April 18, 2010, 09:18:26 AM

Title: A Minimum Outcomes bill?
Post by: plugger on April 18, 2010, 09:18:26 AM

I've been emailing a long-time member of DialysisEthics and he suggested it might be a good idea to work on getting a bill for minimum outcome standards.  In order for the center to get paid the full amount dialyzors would have to have, for example, a KTV of 1.4 or higher.  If it was lower, the clinic would get paid on a sliding scale, 95% etc..

I've got some friends involved in politics and I've thought about approaching them with the idea, but I wanted to get some feedback first.

I did also start a topic at the DialysisEthics site:

http://dialysisethics2.org/forum/index.php?topic=561.0

Title: Re: A Minimum Outcomes bill?
Post by: plugger on April 19, 2010, 07:16:24 PM

Uh, never mind.  According to Dori over at Home Dialysis Central, it looks like pay-for-performance is going to happen without a bill:

http://forums.homedialysis.org/showthread.php/2528-A-Minimum-Outcomes-bill

Title: Re: A Minimum Outcomes bill?
Post by: plugger on April 25, 2010, 03:05:28 PM

It does look like there are still problems with the standards for pay-for-performance that are being come up with according to Dori and Beth at Home Dialysis Central:
http://forums.homedialysis.org/showthread.php/2528-A-Minimum-Outcomes-bill

Also trying to summarize it a bit at our DialysisEthics site:
http://dialysisethics2.org/forum/index.php?topic=561.0