Addressing ESRD Complexities with Integrated Care

End stage renal disease (ESRD) represents a population health conundrum. It affects a relatively small part of the U.S. population, yet the rate of ESRD…

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Leveraging Telehealth in Kidney Care

Numerous medical organizations, health care providers, insurance carriers and government organizations are exploring ways to leverage telehealth (two-way video visits between physicians and their patients)…

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Implementing HIPAA-Compliant Secure Messaging in Your Practice

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…

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5 Key Financial Numbers for a Nephrology Practice

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…

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Case Study: Reducing Avoidable Dialysis on the Day of Discharge with ESRD Patients

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…

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Shaping the Future of Private-Practice Nephrology

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…

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Practice Transformation for Quality Payment Program Success

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…

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Podcast: Electronic Health Records: Past, Current and Future Landscape

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….

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Study: Improved Dialysis Outcomes and Cost Savings through a Payer-Provider Partnership

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…

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Evolving Your Practice to Meet Quality-Based Reimbursement

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…

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