While health care technology has generated many benefits, such as digitizing patient records and performing advanced analytics, one of its greatest contributions has been enhancing…

As nephrologists, we are all about the clinical numbers: BUN, creatinine, anion gap, electrolytes, blood gases and on and on. Focusing on these numbers is…

Although I don’t recall this ever being discussed in medical school, serving as good stewards of limited resources has become increasingly important as health care…

The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) has long performed nephrologist manpower analyses and reported on developments and trends in the field. ASN’s latest report reveals…

As nephrology practices evolve to meet the demands of value-based care, including the requirements of the Quality Payment Program (QPP), certain operational changes must be…

Electronic health records (EHRs) first started to appear in the 1970s, yet physicians were slow to adopt EHR technology because of cost and workflow disruption….

End stage renal disease (ESRD) patients experience a variety of complicated medical issues requiring significant and costly care. Initiating an intensive patient management program at…

As we enter the second year of data collection for Medicare’s Quality Payment Program (QPP), it is worth thinking through some higher-level thoughts and strategic…

With the growing body of regulations today, nephrology coding has become more complex. Practices must navigate not only a new level of specificity but also…

Four Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) recently proposed policy changes that would create stricter rules around paying for more than three dialysis treatments per week. These…